This article is a useful guide on how to identity and utilize the common and different organic plant materials used to treat animals especially poultry. 1. Christmas melon (Tagiri) Poultry farmers can adopt Christmas melon (also called Tagiri) extract to cure the deadly and contagious Newcastle Disease (ND) that attack their birds and avoid the use of antibiotics and other synthetic drugs that often raise their production costs and harm humans. According to a previous report by International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) on Newcastle disease control in Kibwezi, Machakos County, in spite of the availability of the disease vaccines its uptake by small holder farmers is generally limited due to its cost, hence Newcastle disease remains a major constraint among the farmers. “The cost of rearing chickens has become costly and it is high time farmers go organic in raising their chickens and put in place natural defences that will help protect their flock against deadly poultry
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