Answer to Question #92043 in Zoology for Elisha

Question

What drug can be administered to broiler Chicks when it defecate blood

Answer 1

When the broiler chicken defecate blood the condition is known as COCCIDIOSIS. This is an intestinal disorder that occurs when a parasistic organisms gets attached to the intestinal lining of chicken causes damages of the tissue of the gut which as a result causes bleeding while defecating.

All chickens carry the coccidiosis organism in their bowels but only some will develop the disease. The disease starts with an unsporulated oocyst, which is passed through a chicken’s droppings. An unsporulated oocyst can lay dormant in the soil for up to a year and doesn’t sporulate (become infectious) unless it gets the opportunity to sit for several days in wet and humid conditions.

When a chicken eats a sporulated oocyst, either through contaminated water and food or simply during its usual scratching around in the earth, the digestive acids of the chicken’s intestines will break down the hard protective layer of the oocyst. The oocyst will hatch and invade the cell lining in the small intestine. The parasite goes through several life stages, multiplying inside the chicken and at each stage rupturing more cells within the bowel, resulting in ulceration.

When the broiler chicken defecate blood the condition is known as COCCIDIOSIS. This is an intestinal disorder that occurs when a parasistic organisms gets attached to the intestinal lining of chicken causes damages of the tissue of the gut which as a result causes bleeding while defecating.

 TREATMENT: The drug that is given in the treatment of coccidiosis is AMPROLIUM. It is a liquid that is administered by adding it to hen’s water supply. This drug interferes with vitamin B supplement so vitamin B supplement should be given after the stopping of the medicine AMPROLIUM.