The use of an organic alternative to synthetic drugs especially antibiotics in poultry farming has shown to be effective for the past few years. Tagiri is one of those organic medicinal plants that is widely used in Nigeria to cure and prevent viral diseases in poultry.


As a child of the 90s, who grew up in the southern part of Nigeria, we were used to kicking and playing anything that looks like football while on errands. One of that improvised football was tagiri, Adenopus breviflorus ( Christmas melon). We grew up to know it as ‘snake fruit’ even though we have not seen one feeding on it.
However, little did we know that we were playing with a medicinal plant Know Tagiri (Christmas melon), which has a health benefit for both man and livestock, especially poultry, although without any scientific support.

But this does not weaken the fact of its medicinal potency. This can be attested by the wide range of people who embraces its use in organic poultry farming for preventing and curing... click the link below to continue

http://poultryfarmguide.com/blog/Tagiri-health-benefit-to-chicken-and-how-to-prepare-it-1/