It is important to choose the right method to immunize your chickens!

Vaccination is an important component of poultry management programs and is critical to the success of poultry farming. Effective disease prevention programs such as immunization and biosecurity protect hundreds of millions of birds around the world from many infectious and fatal diseases and improve bird health and productivity.

Chickens are immunized by various methods such as nose and eye drops, intramuscular injections, subcutaneous injections, and water immunization. Of these methods, the most common is the water immunization method, which is most suitable for larger flocks.

What is Drinking Water Immunization Method?
Drinking water immunization method is to mix the weak vaccine into the drinking water and let the chickens drink it within 1~2 hours.

How does it work?
1. Preparation work before drinking water:
Determine the production date, quality and other basic information of the vaccine, as well as whether it contains weak vaccine;
Isolate the weak and sick chickens first;
Reverse rinse the water line to ensure that the water line hygiene is up to standard;
Flush drinking water buckets and vaccine dilution buckets (avoid using metal products);
Adjust the water pressure according to the age of the chickens and keep the water line at the same height (45° angle between the surface of the chickens and the ground for chicks, 75° angle for young and adult chickens);
Give the chickens water control to cut off drinking for 2 – 4 hours, if the temperature is too high can not prohibit water.
2. Operation process:
(1) Water source should use deep well water or cool white water, avoid using tap water;
(2) Do it in an environment with stable temperature and avoid direct sunlight;
(3) Open the vaccine bottle in water and use non-metallic containers to stir and dilute the vaccine; add 0.2-0.5% skimmed milk powder into the dilution solution to protect the potency of the vaccine.
3. Precautions after immunization:
(1) No disinfection with chickens can be carried out within 3 days of immunization, and antibiotics and disinfectant-type ingredients should not be added to the feed and drinking water of chickens within 1 day.
(2) Multivitamin can be added to the feed to improve the immunization effect.

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