In recent years, liver diseases characterized by liver rupture and hepatosplenomegaly have occurred frequently in laying hens, broiler breeders and broilers. Investigations have revealed that there are many causes of liver diseases, including breed and genetic factors, as well as nutritional, disease and vaccination factors. In addition, improper management and environmental stress have greatly increased the risk of liver diseases.
Immunosuppression in chickens, resulting from immune system damage, causes impaired immune function, increased disease susceptibility, and adverse production and health outcomes.
Saprolegniasis, a common fungal disease in aquaculture, frequently breaks out in cold seasons, posing a severe challenge to the aquaculture industry. To effectively address this issue, the following is an in-depth analysis of prevention, control and treatment strategies for saprolegniasis, aiming to help aquaculturists better understand and implement relevant measures.
The latest trial in Penaeus Vannamei, where the phased addition of EGF without the use of any functional feed additives can bring unexpected surprises!
Since poultry have to adapt to flying, they are generally smaller in size and have their own special structure different from large animals. With the rapid development of animal husbandry, the poultry breeding industry has also begun to scale, intensify, and modernize. However, the larger the scale, the worse the health of poultry. Studies have shown that poultry health is closely related to intestinal health. Today, We elaborate on the close relationship between poultry intestinal health and poultry health from the importance of intestinal health, differential structure, determination of intestinal health, and influencing factors.
Further understanding of the physiological function of the small intestine in broilers is indispensable for practitioners. How does the small intestine develop at different ages? When is the growth of intestinal villi complete? Does the gut require the same amount of nutrients at different ages? Only the fittest, breeding will have a lower risk.
In the face of stressors, the intestine is not only an organ that is damaged, but also an organ that aggravates damage to the intestine and other tissues. Once the intestinal mucosal barrier function is damaged and the immune function is disordered, conditions will be created for bacteria and toxins to translocate and invade the body. The invasion of bacteria and toxins will lead to systemic multi-organ dysfunction. The consequence will be an imbalance of the internal environment of the body and the intestinal maintenance. Barriers and normal defenses become initiating a systemic inflammatory response.
Heat stress generally refers to the physiological response of the animal body's non-specific defense response to heat stress sources. When the ambient temperature exceeds the upper critical temperature of the thermal neutral zone, the heat generated by the body exceeds the heat dissipated to the surrounding environment, causing the energy originally used for growth and development to be used to maintain the body's homeostasis, and exhibits a series of symptoms. A non-specific physiological response, this phenomenon is called heat stress.
