Today, I will share with you a little trick to reduce the "cold stress" of chickens.
As the saying goes, "there are three mugwort at home, and a doctor can't come", and "there is ginger at home, so you don't panic when you get sick", which shows the great role of mugwort and ginger.
According to medical records, Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens have the effects of dispelling yin cold, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, harmonizing qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold.
I remember when I was a child, I had a cold and stomachache, and my grandmother would cook a bowl of wormwood leaf ginger juice soup to dispel the cold and relieve pain. I'm not afraid of the cold after drinking it.
Similarly, wormwood and ginger also have good medicinal value in raising chickens, especially when chickens suffer from "cold stress", wind-cold colds, asthma and runny nose, wormwood has the following effects on sick chickens.
(1) Herba Artemisiae Scopariae and Rhizoma Zingiberis Recens can relieve exterior cold, warm the middle warmer to relieve pain, be good at dispelling cold, warm the middle warmer to relieve pain, and disperse exterior cold. They are used to treat constipation caused by weakness of spleen and stomach, aversion to cold, loss of food intake and exogenous wind-cold.
(2) Folium Artemisiae Argyi contains volatile oil, which has antiasthmatic, expectorant and antitussive effects. Feeding mugwort leaves to chickens by chicken farmers can relieve respiratory symptoms such as mouth opening, breathing and nose flutter caused by colds.
Ginger belongs to the lung meridian and has the function of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. Feeding ginger to chickens can relieve cold phlegm, asthma, dyspnea and other symptoms caused by cold.
(3) Strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, helping to digest ginger, which belongs to the spleen and stomach meridian, has the effect of warming and stopping vomiting, and is used to treat vomiting caused by stomach cold; In addition, ginger can promote the secretion of gastric juice and help feed digestion.
(4) Bacteriostasis and sterilization
If chickens are infected with salmonella, there will be white dysentery, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever.
The "anal paste" caused by pullorum is very harmful to chicks. Chickens begin to get sick at the age of 3-7 days, and they are afraid of getting together in the cold, discharging lime-like thin feces and blocking the anus. If the treatment is not timely, the mortality rate can reach 20%-30%.
Because Artemisia argyi contains volatile oil, which has a good bactericidal effect and can kill Salmonella, it can be used with ginger in the treatment of Salmonella in chickens, which not only plays a bactericidal role, but also warms the spleen and stomach, and has a good therapeutic effect on chickens.
Usage: The wormwood is picked, dried and crushed before flowering; Picking ginger in winter and autumn, removing fibrous roots and chopping; During treatment, wormwood and ginger are mixed for 4-5 days according to the ratio of 1%.