Are your broilers not performing? It could be coccidiosis | Phibro
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Coccidia are unicellular, microscopic parasites, responsible for the disease called coccidiosis. When the parasite invades the intestinal walls and multiplies inside its cells, it could produce diarrhoea, an increase in mortality, and a variable negative effect on intestinal function, growth, and feed conversion.
Coccidia affecting poultry are from the genus Eimeria. In broilers, there are three important species, namely Eimeria acervulina (EA), Eimeria maxima (EM), and Eimeria tenella (ET). Frequently, birds are affected by more than one species at a given time.
The symptoms and effects on productivity depend on the cocci species affecting the flock, the immunity level of the birds, as well as on the severity of the infestation. In some cases, symptoms are clear and typical, resulting many times in important losses due to mortality and reduced performance. However, most cases are subclinical, which means that chickens do not present overt symptoms or high mortality rate. Instead, the efficiency in production is greatly affected. This situation is further impaired if secondary conditions, such as necrotic enteritis, set in after the damage to the gut wall produced by the coccidia multiplication.
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