WAYS AND METHOD TO KEEP POULTRY BIRDS HEALTHY

Poultry farming is profitable and it can also be a disaster, if health of the chicken are not well cater for. As a poultry poultry farmer, I will discussed ways and method to make your poultry birds healthy ang grow fast.
To examine your birds, you should be using a systematic approach: these systematic approach are :

1.  Observe the eyes, and check for any discharge or cloudiness that may indicate illness. The eyes of a healthy adult bird should be clear and bright and have a copper-red iris and a round pupil with well-defined margins. Young chicks generally have a blue-gray iris. The eyelids should be free of swelling and opened wide.

2) Check external nares for discharge, crusts, and scratches. The beak should be smooth and free of cracks, and the tips should come to a point.

3. Open the chicken mouth and check for ulcers and mucosal lesions on the tongue and mucosal membranes at the commissures of the beak.

4. Check the color of the earlobes to predict the color of the eggs the hens will produce. Hens that have white earlobes generally produce white eggs, and hens that have red earlobes generally produce brown or other pigmented eggs. 6) Evaluate the feathers to check for feather loss and how they are distributed. Loss of feathers around the back and back of the neck may indicate mating behavior by roosters. Check feathers at the base of the feather shaft to look for parasites such as lice, mites, and nits (lice egg packets). Feathers around the vent should be clear and free of blood or feces. Pasting of the vent with loose feces may indicate enteric disease. Check for scabs and blood around the vent, which are evidence of vent pecking and cannibalism.

5. The two small bones at the sides of the vent are the pubic bones. They should be flexible and have space in between. If hens are in lay, this distance should be the width of three or four fingers. When the hen is not laying, the pubic bones are usually stiff and close together (distance between is one finger width or less).

6.Check the legs and feet. The scales should be smooth and closely adhered to each other. If scales are raised and crusty, there may be a scaly leg mite infestation. Check the footpads for scratches, swellings, or ulcers caused by footpad dermatitis or pododermatitis (bumblefoot
Make sure you examine your chicken everyday, and if any developed these above signs, please isolate the chicken and start treatment immediately. Never allow these illnesses to stay long in your chicken.
Remember, healthy chicken will lay healthy eggs and they will also produced healthy meat, and when your  chicken are healthy, you make huge profit from it.