Different Types of Poultry Vaccines

Using poultry vaccines are must because the main obstacle of profitable poultry farming and spreading this industry is diseases. For this reason to prevent the poultry farm, disease defense method should make through vaccination.

Most of the poultry diseases has no treatment. As the disease spread very fast so there is no scope to prevent this. We can make disease defense power in poultry body by hygienic rearing systems and providing appropriate vaccine.

The germ of disease like certain bacteria or virus collected and preserved in a specific method and then turn it to medicine where this germ works as antibody. They work against the germ and bacteria. This is simply known as vaccine.

That means turning harmful germs to inoffensive germ. While applying this to animal body they will make disease defense instead of causing any diseases. Vaccine is very sensitive materiel. Potency of vaccine can be damaged due to numerous causes.

Different Types of Poultry Vaccines

Generally bacterial, mycoplasma and viral vaccine are used for poultry.

Name and recognition method of some widely used vaccine are described below.

BCRDV Vaccine

This vaccine is for baby chicken affected by newcastle disease. This vaccine can be found as tablet in vial in dry and freezing condition. The tablet is green colored.

RDV Vaccine

This vaccine is for adult chicken. It can be found as tablet in vial in dry freezing condition. This tablet become white colored.

Gumboro Live Vaccines

This vaccine is for baby chicken affected by gumboro disease. It can be found as tablet in small vial. There is a liquid material bottle with this. Mix the tablet with this liquid.

Gumboro Dead Vaccines

This is for breeding chicken affected by gumboro disease. This can be found in 500 ml bottle in liquid condition.

Mareks Vaccines

This vaccine is for mareks disease affected chicken. Vaccine can be found as tablet in a small vial. Mix this with diluent in 200 ml bottle.

Fowl Pox Vaccines

This vaccine is used for chicken pox disease. Tablet can be found in a small vial. The color of this vaccine become reddish.

Mycoplasma Vaccines

This is for mycoplasmosis disease of chicken. This vaccine is liquid and can be found in 500 ml bottle.

Cholera Vaccines

This vaccine is for cholera affected chicken. Liquid vaccine can be found in 100 ml glass bottle.

Duck Plague Vaccines

This vaccine is for duck plague disease affected duck. Liquid vaccine can be found in small glass bottle.

Using Poultry Vaccines

Using method of vaccine of different aged poultry are described below.

Vaccines	Disease	Age	Applying Method
Mareks	Mareks	1 day	Run meat
BCRDV	Newcastle	7 day	Two whit in two eyes
Gumboro Live	Gumboro	14-18 day	One whit in one eye
Fowl Pox	Chicken Pox	30 day	Under wing skin
Salmonella Live	Fowl Typhoid	6 and 16 week	Injection in meat
RDV	Newcastle	60 day and 6 month	Injection in run
Mycoplasma	Mycoplasmosis	9-10 week	Under skin of neck
Cholera	Poultry Cholera	75, 90 day and 6 month	Under skin of neck
Gumboro Killed	Gumboro	18-20 week	Under skin of neck
Duck Plague	Duck Plague	30, 45 day and 6 month	Injection in run meat