موضوعات للمهتمين بصناعة الدواجن Topics for poultrymen( Breedrs, Smallholders, Resarchers, Students ) in poultry industry

GOUT

Visceral gout is the deposition of white urates, which are normally excreted as a white cap on well formed faeces, in various tissues. Urates are also often deposited

CAGE LAYER FATIGUE

ASCITIS

Associated with inadequate supplies of oxygen, poor ventilation and physiology (oxygen demand, may be related to type of stock and strain). Ascites is a disease of broiler chickens

PEROSIS

FUSARIOTOXICOSES

AFLATOXICOSIS

ASPERGILLLOSIS

KNEMIDOKOPTOSIS

ASCARIDIOSIS

COCCIDIOSIS DISEASE

Depression. Ruffled feathers. Closed eyes. Inappetance. Diarrhoea, blood in faeces. Production less affected than in some of the other forms of coccidiosis. Petechiae. Thickening, ecchymoses, of

FOWL POX

None. Flocks and individuals still unaffected may be vaccinated, usually with chicken strain by wing web puncture. If there is evidence of secondary bacterial

LARYNGOTRACHEITIS DISEASE (ILT)

Dyspnoea. Gasping. Coughing of mucus and blood. Drop in egg production. Ocular discharge. Sinusitis. Nasal discharge (low pathogenicity strains). Signs, lesions, in severe form may be

Infectious Bronchitis, IB Egg-layers

Drop in egg production (20-50%). Soft-shelled eggs. Rough shells. Loss of internal egg quality. Coughing, sneezing. Rales may or may not be present. Follicles flaccid. Yolk

Infectious Bursal Disease, IBD, Gumboro

Depression. Inappetance. Unsteady gait. Huddling under equipment. Vent pecking. Diarrhoea with urates in mucus. No specific treatment is available. Use of a multivitamin supplement and

EGG DROP SYNDROME-1976

None. Soluble multivitamins may be recommended as a non­specific measure. Vaccination with inactivated vaccine prior to lay.