The buoyant poultry industry faces significant challenges from respiratory diseases, impacting both small-scale and commercial farmers. Addressing these diseases is crucial to maintaining profitability and stock health.

• Respiratory diseases like Newcastle, infectious bronchitis, and Mycoplasma are common.
• Key control strategies include proper site location and distance, robust biosecurity measures, thorough cleaning and sanitation, and effective poultry vaccination programs.
• Dr. Messo, a company veterinarian at Kenchic, emphasizes the importance of depopulation (culling) for highly infectious diseases to break transmission cycles and enable thorough disinfection.