Immunity in fact is the ability of the bird's body to recognize its own or "self" tissues and to eliminate foreign or "non-self" materials in what we call an immune response. The system behind that "body-defence-program" consits of a very sofisticated interplay of a series of organs like the spleen, the cecal tonsils, the bone marrow, the Harderian gland, the thymus and the Bursa of fabricious aswell as an even vaster range of proteins, hormones and enzymes...
Becasue preventing is always better than healing large vaccinationprogramms have been put in place to prepare the bird's immunity systems for diseases to come and where many of these vaccination strategies have been proven efficient and able to avoid disease outbreaks, even these ones do come with a cost because of they demand so much from the birds, energy- and productionwise.
To alleviate this downside of deliberately triggering the immune system and to supply the key ingredients for this very complex system to function and perform at its best, Mercordi has developed a range of solutions available to you all
