{"id":5766,"date":"2020-10-23T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2020-10-23T14:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T14:00:12","slug":"why-your-chicks-may-be-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/why-your-chicks-may-be-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Why your chicks may be blind."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you find your chicks blind, they\u00a0may be suffering from Fowl pox, a viral disease of poultry. The virus is highly resistant in dried scabs and under certain conditions may survive for months on contaminated premises.<\/p>\n<p>Affected young birds have retarded growth while laying birds experience a drop in egg production. Some birds develop wound like lesions on the comb, around the eyes and even beak.<\/p>\n<p>Birds that have oral or respiratory system infection experience difficulty in eating and breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Fowl pox has no treatment; antibiotics prescribed by a qualified veterinarian can help to manage the secondary infections.<\/p>\n<p>The disease can only be prevented through a wing-web vaccination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you find your chicks blind, they\u00a0may be suffering from Fowl pox, a viral disease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicken","category-poultry-diseases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}