Re-calculating the cost of coccidiosis in chickens

Table 3 Values used to calculate the cost of anticoccidial therapy in broiler and broiler breeder chickens

	UK-1995^a	Brazil	Egypt	Guatemala	India	New Zealand	Nigeria	UK	USA
3. Cost of broiler therapy against coccidiosis
% Flocks affected by coccidiosis	2	8	35	80	5	80	30	3	10
Pence treatment per bird	3.18	3.10	0.43	7.19	1.20	0.2^b	5.25	2.00	2.88
Total cost of broiler therapy (millions)	£0.40	£14.53	£1.35	£8.21	£1.45	£0.18	£3.19	£0.63	£25.64
4. Cost of broiler breeder therapy against coccidiosis
% Flocks affected by coccidiosis	1	8	25	80	2	80	50	2	10
Pence treatment per bird	2.03	2.90	4.32	7.19	1.20	19.20	4.73	2.00	10.79
Total cost of broiler breeder therapy (millions)	£0.001	£0.10	£0.07	£0.06	£0.004	£0.13	£0.04	£0.003	£0.74

Data collected from major poultry producing countries selected to represent South, Central and North America (Brazil, Guatemala, USA), North Africa (Egypt), sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria), Asia (India), Europe (UK) and Oceania (New Zealand). ^aFigures from the UK in 1995 used in the original study published by Williams [16]. ^bThe cost of treatment in New Zealand was set artificially low since it is very rare for broilers to be treated for coccidiosis due to drug residue regulations.

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