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In poultry farming today, vaccination plays a crucial role in the day-to-day management of the health of your poultry flock. Vaccination or immunisation as others prefer to call it can prevent several poultry diseases. Vaccination is a process in which the healthy chickens are 'infected' in a controlled manner with dead or weakened disease-causing pathogen (antigen). After vaccination, the birds' own immune system will respond to the vaccine by activating an army of cells designed to attack and destroy the invaders before they cause damage to the birds, this is what we refer to as immunizations. Here are the 7 tips for an effective immunisation

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