Descending veins is one of the diseases feared by the owners of fighting chickens that cause interference with the locomotor apparatus, especially the legs are a weapon for chickens when competing. Movement disorders will affect the activity and movement of chickens, both daily activities and when competed.
Descending veins in chicken fight due to the young age of the chicken is matched with an old chicken or chicken that already has experience in fighting. As well as young chickens that are too long shielded or trained abar. While the bones and muscles of young chickens have not grown optimally and are not yet strong.
Muscles that are not yet strong can experience tearing or swelling which results in damage to muscle tissue in the fight chicken. Young chickens that train too hard or exceed the limits of physical ability will also be at risk of this disease. Descending veins can also occur in chickens that are old enough because of a hard enough collision when competing or competing too often.
Chickens that experience descending veins will usually appear limp, often lift one leg that experiences descending veins, legs feel hot if touched, sometimes swelling of the legs even to bluish bruises, unbalanced walking or walking with one leg as a pedestal while the other leg hurts to tread, stay in the cage and do not touch the chicken want to move, legs feel stiff so hard to move, toes look curved down like bending and decreased appetite chicken.
Chickens that experience descending veins should be treated immediately because if it is too late it can lead to paralysis. To cure chicken down veins, care needs to be done with patience and patience for example with treatments such as the following:
- Soak the feet in a bucket filled with warm water added with salt.
- If there is an external wound, the wound needs to be washed and smeared with an antiseptic such as Antisep.
- Chicken legs that have descending veins can be bandaged or wrapped in gauze. Preferably when bandaged not close to the toes so that the chicken can still tread / step on the ground. Change the bandage daily to avoid infection and speed healing.
- When changing the bandage, the leg that is experiencing descending veins can be soaked first with water mixed with salt and then bandaged again.
- During the day the chicken can be placed in a shady area but not mixed with other roosters. Avoid narrow cage areas or limited space so that chickens can rest and move freely.
- Chickens need to be rested/ not competed and not given physical exercise first until the legs heal while given nutritious food. In chickens whose appetite drops can be helped by being fed/diloloh.
- Give medicine for inflammation and muscle pain with Tendefit on the fight chicken.
Prevention that can be done on fighting chickens so as not to get down the vein is to provide good care and do not pit young fighting chickens with chickens that are much older or experienced in competing. And not too fforsir young chicken during exercise.
For young chickens, the initial exercise can be given for 3-5 minutes and then gradually increased until it can be trained for 15-20 minutes. This is because the bones and muscles of young chickens are not yet strong enough for training that is too hard past the capacity of chickens or heavy matches.
To reduce inflammation, muscle pain as well as prevent down veins give Tendefit after training or competition. Tendefit not only treat inflammation in the legs but also inflammation in all parts of the body especially after the chicken compete.
