"Is there a vaccine (ie: Gumboro vaccine) into a formidable fortress of truth?" Said Durrahman, a chicken farmer in the mountains a thousand Wonosari Yogyakarta.
It is well-founded complaints that suggestive questions was submitted to the Infovet Durrahman encountered in a relatively large cage. Location of the cage is actually quite hot because of the trees wither where the leaves of large trees that used to protect the loss if it enters the early dry season.
Actual location of the cage it is in the area that are less ideal, just to not say do not meet the requirements for the growth of broilers. Aspects of the environmental temperature is hot and also very limited volume of water supplies for livestock is an example.
However, conditions remain very minimalist not dampen Durrahman intention and determination to try to pursue the venture. Although only running about 3-4 years, but when viewed from the development level of welfare of his family, then Durrahman including quite successful.
"I tried to go against the grain and against the majority opinion of the practitioners poultry that area of my efforts are not suitable as a breeding place chicken pieces," he said.
The former chicken coop in Bogor workers who returned to his village was trying to attempt it in his village because of the assets owned and skill that's it.
After confirming interest from Bogor and his determination to become independent farmers small scale.
Because of the location of his residence which is a major asset in the arid mountains whenever the dry season ahead, try to be utilized optimally.
When asked obstacles and barriers to developing its business in addition to greater difficulty in obtaining large tracts of land and away from residential areas because there is one disease that still considered difficult to anticipate and deal with. It is Gumboro disease.
According to such health programs as required vaccinations have been carried out strictly. Therefore Durrahman marketers trying to challenge the vaccine to dare to guarantee interference-free during the maintenance, it turns out no one dares.
"Is there a vaccine (ie: Gumboro vaccine) into a formidable fortress of truth," said Infovet Durrahman to repeat the challenge every meeting with the health care field.
And, almost no one dared to give guarantees, general advice and counsel, almost like advice juragannya first time in Bogor to his cage and workers in order to maintain cleanliness and keep doing the spraying.
Sometimes, further Durrahman, he took a final conclusion that the disease such as chicken are an integral part of the poultry business. Because on the basis of his experiences as a child of the cage is almost certainly no gagguan from mild illness to a 'vicious'.
According to him, never having been in a period of smooth and escaped from the ambush of the disease.
Special Gumboro disease, is indeed a scourge and make the manager exercises the heart. Because sometimes, crashing when age is still not worth harvesting, but also most often when it was approaching the age of harvest.
"Growth and the chickens are very good performance and market prices are high ... eee Gumboro emerged. Such as waking from sleep while it is a beautiful dream. "He said as if to tell the hope that destroyed instantly.
During this Durrahman Gumboro when addressing cases are still preliminary, or young age just by giving sugar water or sorbitol and paracetamol (fever-reducing active substance) and the spray enclosure is teruis basis.
His experience means that it can not cope with yet perfectly capable of suppressing the number of losses that may be much greater if the revaksinasi.
"The provision of drinking water containing sweet substance capable of suppressing death and the appearance of dwarfs to 30%. As long as I was a child's home and learning methods at least are still the best "he said.
Back to Infovet he asked, is there any other way besides vaccination that was not able to guarantee 80% sakalipun let alone 100% can be free from interference Gumboro disease.
Even the most concern if the disease is emerging as another disease weakens queuing up to join the chicken, so do not be surprised if the breeder, including himself so traumatic with Gumboro.
Although traumatic, but because of that fact must be faced then every farmer, according to Durrahman definitely try to find their own solutions on the basis of field experience and improvisation.
Like the way during this time, still considered the best solution. The question is whether there are other breeders experience more successful and smooth face Gumboro?
Broiler Immunity
To answer these questions and anxiety breeders, we must understand the particulars immune chickens.
Same with the human body, the animal's body is also vulnerable to disruption of germs. This means that also required a strong immune system to ward off outbreaks of germs in the body such cattle.
"The function of the immune system is essential for the health of livestock, especially broiler chickens that have age restrictions maintenance," Academics College of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry UIN Suska Riau drh Jully Handoko said.
Said to be an alumnus of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Gajah Mada, the purpose of maintenance of broiler chickens is the attainment of optimal body weight with a maximum application of procedural maintenance.
Broiler weight optimal only obtained when cattle healthy and there is no disruption of germs, which means farmers must set aside or cut the threat of germs that would undermine the broiler chicken pet.
Jully said in the case of Gumboro, in an early form of Gumboro will damage the immune system by massive cock. This damage will not recover, the result would be a permanent immunosuppression in chickens in question. "And this is the beginning of the actual losses in broiler breeder chickens," said Jully.
In line with Jully, DVM Faculty alumni Budi added force in 1980, triggered by the Gumboro immunosuppression may also lead to younger or susceptible chickens infected by various other diseases and worse immune system response is not owned chickens to vaccination for other diseases.
Stock Fabrisius
Immune system of chickens and other livestock is a very complex system. In chickens, there are two organs associated with immune system, namely the exchanges and thymus.
Stock mostly of B cells that play a role in producing or circulating humoral antibodies, are largely thymus contains T cells with a function to recognize and destroy cells infected with bacteria or viruses, activates macrophages in the phagocytosis and assist in antibody-producing B cells.
In the embryo, these two systems are programmed to produce active immunity against the disease, meaning that immunity acquired as a result have suffered from infectious diseases or due to inoculation with disease-causing ingredients that have been transformed.
In addition, Gumboro disease virus does not only attack the exchanges, which could cause disruption to the ability of humoral antibody production, but also can attack that would destroy the thymus cell-mediated immunity.
When infection occurs before the age of 3 weeks the chickens as a result of damage is permanent, is when the infection occurred after 3 weeks of age chickens, the damage appears to be temporary and the chicken immune system will function again recovered within 2-3 weeks post infection.
Maternal Antibodies
Then how to overcome the infection in chicks, back drh Jully Handoko confirmed that the chick has acquired passively acquired antibodies from its mother via the egg yolk (maternal antibodies), this can be done by seeking humoral antibody levels remain high on the parent or the parent stock chicken.
This is very effective in preventing and protecting the chicks from infection. "The breeder retains an important role in the emergence of cut cases of diseases caused by immunosuppression," urges academics Fapertapet this Suska UIN.
In addition, maternal antibodies do not only protect chicks against infection, but also hinder the formation of antibodies active against IBD.
It is known that the half-life of maternal antibodies IBD ranged 3-4 days, and chickens that have maternal antibodies with high titers, the maternal antibody levels will be reduced much faster when compared with chickens that have maternal antibody titer is low.
Precaution
So, what should be done to prevent infection breeder Gumboro disease which lowers immunity this chicken?
Referring to the concept of a field of breeder experience, drh Budi said that there are three ways of preventive measures of early viral infection that can be done breeders Gumboro namely "
1) Prevent contact with the virus Gumboro chicken,2) Give the parent so that the vaccine in chickens chicks get protection through maternal antibodies, and3) Giving vaccines in chicks with Gumboro vaccines are non-virulent active.
Repeated cases of Gumboro at the farmer level was driven more by economic factors. The point is that in broiler chickens Gumboro vaccination should be done twice, but considering the cost of farmers is high enough, then the breeder is only done once during the maintenance period.
This negative impact, which will cause Gumboro attack at times approaching harvest. "Here's what to look out for farmers," said Budi is also appealing, in addition to Gumboro, farmers also must remain vigilant against other diseases that also may lower the immunity of chicken. CRD and the disease is coccidiosis.
Eliminate Trigger Factors
Meanwhile, M Hadie broiler breeders in the outskirts of Pekanbaru Panam said that in the handling of Gumboro needed serious attention to the factors triggering the disease outbreak.
Tests of that cage density factor during the first week of maintenance need to be considered, it is associated with stress levels and the chicken was pointed out as early disastrous chicken immune deficiencies mentioned.
Moderate by drh Rondang NAYATI MM Animal Health Animal Husbandry Department Head of Riau Province over advocate on nutritional balance of food consumed both broiler and layer chickens.
This is pretty basic, because if the chicken is food with good nutrition then the chicken is able to withstand the attacks of disease. Related to the use of veterinary drugs, wife of former Chief of Riau Provincial Livestock Office confirms to be given with caution, because it concerns the safety of consumers (food safety).
Vaccination and Immunity
Formed by the body's immune chickens there are two, namely humoral immunity or a thorough, in which there are immune substances in the bloodstream and local immunity with immune substances present in the body that never attacked the disease.
Similarly, Muhammad Firdaus Drh MSi Head of Department of Agriculture Animal Health Pekanbaru City as he continues, local immunity can be a weapon to confront the attacks of germs. However, its ability to kill germs only place where there are immune substances, for example in the respiratory tract, the infection does not occur in the respiratory tract.
Meanwhile, on the other body parts that are not immune substances, allowing exposure to germs. "This is different from humoral immunity that can fend off germs attack the body at any location," explains this UNRI graduate alumni.
Vaccines are the germs of microorganisms that have been attenuated virulence or off and when given to animals does not cause disease but can stimulate the formation of immune substances in accordance with the type of vaccine.
Being vaccinated is the act of entering the vaccine into the body of cattle and is an effort in order to protect cattle against certain diseases.
For the farmer, vaccination is a routine activity in the farm business.
Further describing breeder that vaccinations are carried out by means of eye drops, nose drops, drinking water and the spray will stimulate the body's immune chickens to form local, while the implementation of vaccination by injection or injections will stimulate the formation of humoral immunity or thorough.
In chicks, the application of vaccination usually by eye drops or nose drops, and sometimes of administration by injection if the type of vaccine inactive. Vaccination via the drinking water can not be done, because the chicks are 1-4 days drinking age is still small and irregular.
In adult chickens, vaccination applications usually with eye drops, nose drops, drinking water and injections. "Only through an injection that can guarantee the accuracy of a given dose of vaccine in chickens," said Firdaus.
You certainly have penagalaman that can abstracted to a successful step to overcome this chicken immune disease. The above information can certainly be an appeal to the more certain and definite step!