Monograph
Controlling Newcastle disease in village chickens: a training manual
Date released
17 May 2001
Publication Code
MN086
Overview
This manual aims to assist trainers to enable farmers to become successful community vaccinators against ND. The manual focuses on the use of freeze-dried vaccine applied with via eye drop.
Controlling Newcastle disease (ND) in village chickens can make a significant and positive contribution to the lives of people in rural areas. To ensure that ND is controlled in a way that will be least expensive to farmers, it is important that farmers themselves learn how to vaccinate chickens against the disease and how to raise their chickens in a way that is more likely to keep them healthy.