Vaccination schedule of commercial and backyard chickens

In the past, the vaccination was only considered necessary in the backyard poultry if there was previous history of the diseases at farm location or at the regional level.

However, now a days due to intensive production even at small scale and also due to poor biosecurity measures, the vaccination of the backyard poultry is extremely important in order to withstand the flock and not to lose production. It is even more importanWhen to vaccinates?t if you are raising the birds for income purpose.

When to vaccinates?

If your farm and the region have the previous history of particular disease. In this case add that vaccine in the mandatory vaccines list

If you are regularly adding new birds to the existing flock (open flock). In this case put the newly coming birds in quarantine for 14 days before mixing up with the existing flock

Vaccination for a disease which is not present in your local area can create the problem for future flocks. Because you will introduce a new organism to the flock. Once you started, you have to do every time in future onwards

Vaccination for a disease which is not present in your local area can create the problem for future flocks. Because you will introduce a new organism to the flock. Once you started, you have to do every time in future onwards

Vaccination Schedule

Disease	Vaccination age	Recommendations
Meat + Egg purpose birds
Marek’s Disease	At hatchery or newly hatched chicks at day 1^st of life	Must do
New Castle Disease	At day 10^th and 35^th of life	Must do
Infectious bursal Disease (Gumboro)	At day 14^th of life	Must do
Infectious Bronchitis	At day 10^th and 35^th of life	Optional/ Must do if common in area
	Additional for Egg type birds
Fowl pox	10 weeks old birds	Optional/ Must do if common in area
New Castle Disease	12 weeks old birds and then repeat every three months	Must do
Infectious Bronchitis	12 weeks old birds and then repeat every three months	Must do