09/03/2025
HANDLING AND STORING OF POULTRY VACCINES
Vaccines, drugs, disinfectants and other chemicals are used in the poultry industry to help mitigate disease challenges in farms.
Their professional use is important because they have a direct impact on human welfare, safety of poultry and provide a guarantee for biosecurity on the farms.
Vaccines are weakened live disease-causing micro-organisms which when introduced in the birds, makes the body to produce antibodies against them.
Vaccines exist in groups;
*Live agent vaccines
*Killed agent vaccines
Conditions for safe use of vaccines
✅Do not vaccinate poultry during stress( debeaking, transfer, high heat or when sick).
✅Use clean equipment
✅Do not use metallic water containers.
✅Use a sterile solvent( saline solution or sterile distilled water) for injectable vaccine as recommended by the manufacturer.
✅Do not use water containing disinfectant or organic matter( chlorine, acid water etc)
