RATE OF NEWCASTLE DISEASE SPREAD AMONG CHICKENS: COMPARATIVE SIMULATION EXPERIMENT

Ariston O. Ronquillo, Douglas M. Doloriel, Nancy S. Doloriel

Abstract


Newcastle Disease (NCD) is one of the deadly diseases that occasionally infect chickens. Transmission occurs by exposure to contaminated exhaled air, feces, and respiratory discharges. This paper determined the rate of NCD spread among chickens. Six (6) comparisons were made from the combination of four (4) breeds of chickens in this comparative simulation expirement.Results indicate that significant differences in NCD infection rates can be observed between each of the four (4) breeds of chicken. Layer chickens have significantly fastest NCD infection rate among the chicken breeds.

Keywords


chickens,Newcastle Disease (NCD), Newcastle Disease Virus (NDV), velogenic, mesogenic, ventogenic, morbidity, mortality rate

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