A balanced diet is one of the pledges of poultry health. Experienced farmers pay due attention to the saturation of feed with vitamins and microelements.
A sufficient level of intake of vitamins improves metabolism, increases immunity resistance, contributes to the normal development of the body. With insufficiently enriched with vitamins food and feed, bird owners often resort to using synthetic vitamin complexes to restore normal balance.
One of the most popular vitamin complexesintended for poultry, is trivitamin.
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Application for broilers
Trivitamin is intended for therapeutic and prophylactic measures against A, D and E hypovitaminosis - one of the most important vitamins for vital activity.
With a lack of vitamin A, the body’s resistance to various infections decreases, the regulation of normal functioning and the ability to regenerate epithelial tissues, including mucous membranes, deteriorates.
Signs for which use of trivitamin is shown due to vitamin A deficiency in the body of birds:
- deterioration of view;
- disorder digestive organs;
- deterioration reproductive abilities;
- decline quantities eggs in clutch;
- increase in number unfertilized eggs;
- degradation of pen quality cover (in severe cases, loss of feathers);
- curvature and fragility claws;
- violations upper respiratory tract activity;
- weakness feet;
- conjunctivitis;
In the case of hypovitaminosis D, the digestibility of calcium is severely impaired, because it is this vitamin that is synthesized naturally in the body under the influence of sunlight.
Its main function is to ensure the normal growth and development of bones, in particular the normal development of growth rates of young animals depends on how well the body absorbs calcium under the influence of vitamin D.
Vitamin E is another element affecting growth. In addition, a lack of vitamin E can signal a decrease in fertility in poultry, disorders of the central nervous system, muscle weakness and dystrophy.
Vitamin E is also responsible for the normal development of the embryo.therefore, for the full health of the offspring. Reduced egg production and embryo underdevelopment indicate the need for vitamin supplements.
That is why, especially growing birds, in conditions of poultry farms without the possibility of staying outdoors and feeding the birds with natural food,It is necessary to use medicinal vitamin bait for the full development of the entire population.
pharmachologic effect
Due to the physiologically sound combination of the active ingredients (vitamins A, E and D3) in optimal ratios for the body, trivitamin has a high synergistic effect when using medicine for vitamin supplementation of agricultural poultry for both therapeutic and prophylactic purposes.
Release form and dosage
This drug is available in two forms - as a solution for injection and for oral administration. The solution for injection is packaged in a container with a volume of 100 ml, packaging used for feeding poultry, usually available in volumes of 10, 100 and 1000ml.
Also on sale is the release form of trivitamin in large canisters with a capacity of up to 34 liters, designed for large-scale farms with large populations of agricultural animals. The drug itself is an oily liquid from light yellow to brown with a permissible slight turbidity and a characteristic odor of vegetable oil.
In the process of production of this multivitaminic agent is not used GMOs, carcinogens,chemicals or other hazardous items.
There are several drugs with the same composition:
- trips.
- tetravit.
Despite the fact that these drugs are the means of the same direction, the ratio of vitamins in them is somewhat different.
Solutions for internal administration can also be used orally, however, it should be borne in mind that the vitamins in the composition are fat-soluble, so adding them to the drink and not to the feed can lead to unequal saturation of these elements of individual individuals and, consequently, to overdose.
The use of preparations based on vitamins D3 should be carried out strictly in accordance with the instructions from the manufacturer. Overdose of such funds can adversely affect health and vital signs.
Trivitamin for chickens
The use of a vitamin complex for growing chickens helps to avoid a number of problems that novice farmers may encounter, such as rickets of chicks, lameness, and swelling of the joints of the limbs. For prophylaxis, the administration of trivitamin is introduced for 5-7 days of chick life, especially, especially if greens are not added to the diet.
The average allowable dose recommended by the manufacturer for chickens from one week of age is 515 ml / per 10 kg of feed.
In case of individual therapy, 2 drops are given for chickens of meat and egg lines aged from 9 weeks and 3 drops for broiler chickens older than 5 weeks.
In the treatment, the drug is given daily for 3-4 weeks until the disease is completely eliminated, after which the weekly dose is taken according to the prophylactic regimen.
Use of goslings
Goslings, as well as ducks, at the age of 1-8 weeks, the recommended dose is 7.3 ml per 10 kg of feed. Moreover, it should be borne in mind that the dose for the repair of young geese is equal to 3.7 ml per 10 kg of feed. Preventive feeding with a mixture of feed with trivitaminom carried out once a week.
In the presence of walking for goslings with access to fresh grass, drug prevention of beriberi can be avoided.In the event that symptoms of vitamin deficiency are detected in individual individuals, treatment should be carried out according to an individual scheme with instillation of an agent in the beak of an individual bird. daily for 3-4 weeks until complete elimination of symptoms associated with the disease.
The dose for young geese is 5 drops per bird.
Trivit for turkey poults
As well as chicks of other breeds of agricultural birds, poults need to be enriched with vitamins, especially in large-scale growing conditions at a poultry farm or large farms.
Depending on the number of heads in the pack and the mass of feed consumed, a prophylactic dose of medication is calculated.
For young turkeys aged 1–8 weeks, 14.6 ml of the drug per 10 kg of feed is used once a week. Repair turkey youngsters give 5.2 ml of trivitamin per 10 kg of feed. For medicinal purposes turkey poults give 8 drops daily for 3-4 weeks.
For young of other species
The tool is used for vitamin supplements for the prevention and treatment of different types of poultry for chicks. This quail and guinea fowl ducks.The manufacturer's recommendations should be followed in the instructions for the preparation, observing the dosage for each particular species of birds.
Subsequently, the feed enriched with the preparation cannot be subjected to heat treatment and stored for more than a day due to the fact that most of the vitamins are destroyed during storage and high temperature.
Instructions for use of trivitamin for adult birds
The drug is used in the treatment and prevention of conditions caused by avitaminosis, for adults of agricultural birds. The recommended regimen is 1 drop of the drug per head daily.
For group use by adding to feed, the following values are used:
- Chickens and turkeys - 7ml per 10kg feed.
- Ducks -10 ml / 10kg.
- Geese -8 ml / 10kg.
Side effects and contraindications
In the doses recommended by manufacturers, vitamin complexes of trivitamin do not have any side effects, except for rare cases of individual intolerance by certain individuals to the components in the compositiondrug.
Meat, eggs from birds that took the vitamin complex Trivitamin, have no time limit on human use.
Conclusion
Farmers engaged in breeding and growing poultry often face a number of problems, which are usually caused by a deficiency of vitamins in the diet of birds.
The correct selection of the means for feeding the livestock can highly improve immunity, improve health, reproductive performance, reduce mortality and the level of susceptibility to infectious diseases. The key to the solution can be a vitamin complex trivitamin (trivit, tetravit).
Besides high security for all types of poultry when using trivitamin according to the instructions, this tool due to the absence of harmful elements in the composition, is absolutely safe for people who use meat, eggs of birds that received vitamin bait.