The magical effect of potassium permanganate in chicken farming

Potassium permanganate is a black-purple, slender, angular crystal that is odorless. I believe many farmers are familiar with potassium permanganate. It plays many roles in the chicken farming process. Let’s talk about the wonderful uses of potassium permanganate in chicken farming.

1. Drinking water disinfection

The effect of disinfection is very significant. Potassium permanganate solution with a concentration of 0.01%~0.02% can be used to disinfect the drinking water of chicks. It should be changed 2~3 times a day, used for 2 consecutive days, stopped for 2 days, and then used for 2 days again. It can not only promote the excretion of meconium, but also prevent pullorum, coccidiosis, etc., to achieve the purpose of disinfection.

2. Feed disinfection

The green feed eaten by chickens can be disinfected with 0.1% potassium permanganate water to effectively prevent the occurrence of diseases such as coccidiosis, ascariasis and diarrhea.

3. Disinfection of chicken houses and chicken farming equipment

Disinfecting chicken houses and chicken farming equipment with potassium permanganate can kill most parasite eggs. Place all equipment, items and bedding together in the brooder house, close the doors and windows, and fumigate and disinfect for 20 to 30 minutes using 75 ml of formalin and 45 g of potassium permanganate per cubic meter of space. The disinfection time for chicken houses, warehouses, brooders and hatcheries can be extended to 10 to 12 hours. After disinfection, open doors and windows for ventilation.

4. It has a detoxifying effect

When chickens are poisoned by accidentally ingesting the rodenticide zinc phosphide, they can be given 0.1% potassium permanganate solution, 5 to 20 ml per chicken, to oxidize and decompose the rodenticide that has not been absorbed in the digestive tract.

5. Prevent infection

Using 0.05-0.2% potassium permanganate solution to rinse the peck wounds, puncture wounds, ulcers and fowl pox wounds on the chicken's body surface can promote healing and prevent infection.

6. Control the occurrence of diseases

① Use 0.01-0.02% potassium permanganate solution and give it to chicks that have just hatched for 3 days once a day to prevent and treat white diarrhea.

② In the rainy season, when chickens drink more dirty water, drinking it twice a day can prevent gastroenteritis; normally, chickens drink it 1-2 times a week, which has anti-inflammatory and digestive effects.

③ During the epidemic period of infectious coryza in chickens, giving chickens 0.01-0.02% potassium permanganate water to drink can control the spread within the flock.

④ When broilers suffer from manganese deficiency, drinking 0.01-0.02% potassium permanganate water twice a day can alleviate the condition.

⑤ When free-range chickens suffer from severe necrotic enteritis, drinking water at a ratio of 0.04% per day can effectively alleviate the condition.

That’s it