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Hey yall, thanks for taking time to read my article. As chicken keepers we are learning new things daily, and today I want to teach you about CRD's in chickens, what they are and how to manage them. Before we go any further what exactly is a CRD? CRD stands for Chronic Respiratory Disease and there are multiple including:
Fowl cholera.
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one of the symptoms is swollen wattle's.
Infectious laryngotracheitis
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one of the symtoms is bubbles in eyes.
Infectious bronchitis
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one of the symptoms is gasping
Infectious Coryza
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one of the symptoms if facial swelling
Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae better known as MG/MS
Sadly once your chicken has become infected with one of these CRD's there is no way to treat or cure it, you can only manage it. This is because antibiotics cannot fully destroy/cure the CRD. Most times the symptoms of a CRD look to be the same as those of a URI and can even be mistaken as a URI. So whats the difference between a CRD and a URI? A Chronic Respiratory Disease looks and acts the same way a respiratory infection would. Your chickens might seem weak, lethargic, maybe they are sneezing or coughing or have bubbles in their eyes. You treat them and soon all symptoms disappear making you believe they are cured, But the thing is the CRD hasn't been cured but is laying dormant. If the chicken gets stressed in anyway all of
Hey yall, thanks for taking time to read my article. As chicken keepers we are learning new things daily, and today I want to teach you about CRD's in chickens, what they are and how to manage them. Before we go any further what exactly is a CRD? CRD stands for Chronic Respiratory Disease and there are multiple including:
Fowl cholera.
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one of the symptoms is swollen wattle's.
Infectious laryngotracheitis
View attachment 2962185
one of the symtoms is bubbles in eyes.
Infectious bronchitis
View attachment 2962188
one of the symptoms is gasping
Infectious Coryza
View attachment 2962189
one of the symptoms if facial swelling
Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae better known as MG/MS
Sadly once your chicken has become infected with one of these CRD's there is no way to treat or cure it, you can only manage it. This is because antibiotics cannot fully destroy/cure the CRD. Most times the symptoms of a CRD look to be the same as those of a URI and can even be mistaken as a URI. So whats the difference between a CRD and a URI? A Chronic Respiratory Disease looks and acts the same way a respiratory infection would. Your chickens might seem weak, lethargic, maybe they are sneezing or coughing or have bubbles in their eyes. You treat them and soon all symptoms disappear making you believe they are cured, But the thing is the CRD hasn't been cured but is laying dormant. If the chicken gets stressed in anyway all of
