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Research
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Effectiveness of conventional and alternative therapy in
treatment of respiratory infections in poultry
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Mujeeb Ather, K. Ravikanth, D. S. Rekhe and S. Maini
Veterinary World 2(8): 313-316
Abstract
A flock of
12000 commercial broilers of 3 weeks age were observed to
exhibit the clinical signs like, dullness, anorexia, sneezing,
coughing with facial edema, which was tentatively diagnosed for
respiratory disease (RD). For treatment these birds were divided
into two groups A and B each comprised of 6000 birds. Group A
birds were treated with enrofloxacin (10%) liquid @ 10 mg/kg
body weight for 5 days and group B received polyherbal
formulation AV/CRP/11 (new coded formulation supplied by Ayurvet
Limited, Baddi India) @ 20 ml/100 birds for 5 days. The
parameters studied were clinical signs, growth, performance,
morbidity, livability, mortality, post mortem findings (gross
lesions), air sac and intestinal lesion scores and
histopathological changes. Both treatments showed improvement in
average growth and performance parameters with recovery in
clinical signs, histopathological alterations, morbidity and
mortality percentage and enhanced livability. The polyherbal
formulation was found to be equally efficacious like
Enrofloxacin in treating respiratory disease.
Key words:
Broilers, Histo-pathology, Enrofloxacin, Respiratory infection,
Alternative Therapy.
