If I immunize my backyard chicken from common poultry diseases like NCD, will it affect the health of my neighbors chicken?
The answer is: No and this is based on actual farm experience.
I am taking up this topic today because last week, a small nebackyard chicken farmer called up to report that his neighbor complained to the barangay chairman because his fowls died.
The death of the nighbor’s chicken reportedly happened after my farm workers conducted a vaccination activity in his farm
There is this common belief that once you immunize your fowls from common diseases like Newcastle Disease or NCD, the neighbor’s fowls will get the disease and die.
Newcastle Disease or NCD, also known locally as “Atay” or “Aratay” is a deadly poultry disease which causes chicken to fall dead from their roost.
It could wipe out the whole flock overnight.
Based on our farm experience, i calmly assured the farmer that there is no basis to the claim that the immunization of his fowls led to the death of his neighbors chicken.
I cited that in the farm, we introduce vaccines, including NCD Lasota, to our chicks by batch.
And the brooders are set up side by side.
If the claim that immunizing a flock of chicken would cause the death of other fowls nearby, then the younger chicks in our brooders would haveen wiped out.
But I encouraged him to reach out to his neighbors so that they could help one another in rsising backyard chicken.
I promised him that the boys in my farm will help them implement a health management for their backyard free-range chicken.
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