VACCINATION SCHEDULE FOR POULTRY BIRDS

Animal

Diseases

Age and Booster dose

Route

Remark

Broilers

Ranikhet disease (Newcastle disease)

1-7 days

Spray /occulonasal drops

Strain F or Bl or LaSota.

Infectious bronchitis

3-4 weeks

Spray / drinking water.

Strain La Sota.

Infectious bursal disease

18-21 days

Spray / drinking water

If maternal antibody is low.

Marek’s disease

5-10 days or
18-21 days

Drinking water.

  -

Broiler and layer breeders

Marek’s disease

day-1

i/m

If the bird s are to be kept for more than 60 days.
Only during epidemic.

RD

day-1
3 weeks

i/m

  -

 

1-7 days

Spray/ occulonasal drops.

If mesogenic strain.

 

3-4 weeks

Spray/drinking water
i/m

If lentogenic strain (La Sota)

 

8 weeks

Drinking water

Killed vaccine/ mesogenic strain

 

16-18 weeks
40th week

i/m ,Drinking water

 

Broiler and layer breeders

Fowl pox

6 – 8 weeks
18-20 weeks

Wing web or i/m

Cell culture vaccine

Fowl cholera

6 weeks
Adult repeat annually

0.5 ml s/c
1 ml s/c

  -

Infectious bronchitis

3 weeks
8 weeks
14-16 weeks

Drinking water/spray
i/m

Killed vaccine.

Infectious bursal disease

3 weeks
16 weeks

Drinking water i/m

Chicks between 5-7 days can be vaccinated if required with highly attenuated strains.
Killed vaccine

Commercial layers

Marek’s disease

Day 1

i/m

 

 

Ranikhet disease

 

1-7 days
3-4 weeks
8 weeks
16-18 weeks

spray/ occulonasal drops/drinking water
spray/drinking water
i/m or s/c  Drinking water
i/m

If mesogenic
If lentogenic
Killed vaccine/mesogenic
La Sota strain

Infectious bursal disease

40th week

Drinking water

  -

Infectious bronchitis

3 weeks

Drinking water

  -

Infectious coryza

3 weeks

Drinking water

Killed vaccine

EDS – 76

3 weeks

Drinking water/spray

 

ILT

16 weeks

i/m