| Disease | symptoms |
|---|---|
| Coccidiosis | • Droopy wings • inactive • ruffled feathers • pale beaks and shanks • bloody diarrhoea • weight loss. |
| Fowl CholeraFowl Cholera | • Dejection. • Ruffled feathers. • Loss of appetite. • Diarrhoea. • Coughing. • Nasal, ocular and oral discharge. • Swollen and cyanotic wattles and face. • Sudden death. • Swollen joints. • Lameness. Read more |
| New Castle Disease | • Egg laying stops. • misshapen eggs are produced with rough shells and sometimes bleached shells. • In chicks, gasping coughing and sneezing • Birds may be seen sitting on their back hock joints • walking backwards or in circles • putting the head between their legs • inappetence • droopy. • breathing difficulties, nasal discharge, murky eyes • paralysis in their legs and wings.Newcastle Disease |
| Fowl TyphoidFowl Typhoid | • ruffled feathers • pale head • drooping comb • inappetence • orange coloured diarrhoea Fowl Tick (Blue Bug) |
| Pullorum Disease | • Chicks utter squeaky chirps • appear drowsy • ruffled feathers. • Vent smeared with faecal discharges. • no external symptoms are seen in adult birds. |
| Fowl Pox | Fowlpox can come in two forms, wet or dry. dry form, • unfeathered areas have wart-like lesions that heal in about two weeks. wet form • lesions around the mouth • discharge from your eyes. |
| Gapes | • open-mouth breathing • grunting sound • difficulty breathing |
| Scratching | too much scratching with feet and beaks. making noise |
| Cannibalism | chicken pecking each other |
| Egg eating | eating eggs laid by other birds or themselves. |
| Infectious Bronchitis | • Reduced egg production • inappetence • discharge from • the bird's eyes and nostrils • laboured breathing. more on infectious brochitis |
| Marek's Disease | also referred to as fowl paralysis, • tumours • irregularly shaped pupils • blindness • partial paralysis |
| Diarrhea | |
| Crazy chick | • chicks unable to walk in a straight line. • chick may suddenly shake, topple and fall on their sides • putting their heads between their legs. • chicks alert. appetite not affected. read more |
| Twisting Neck | • bird has difficulty balancing while standing because the neck twists, • bird tries to balance by permanently looking upwards. |
| Botulism | • Flaccid paresis of legs, wings, necks and eyelids • The paresis rapidly progresses to paralysis • birds fall into a deep coma with neck and head typically extended forward. |
| Twisted legsPerosis disease | swollen, twisted, broken, or bowed legs, or loss of color in feathers, the comb, or the roof of the mouth. |
| Infectious Coryza | • swelling of the face around the eyes and wattles • nasal discharge • swollen sinuses • Watery discharge from the eyes |
| Salmoneliosis | |
| Necrotic Enteritis | • Swollen stomach • droopiness • (postmotem: rotten intestines, foul smelling water in cavity) |
| Ulcerative Enteritis (Quail disease) | |
| Omphalitis navel illness, mushy chick disease | • drowsy and droopy • Down(feathers) “puffed up” • stand near the heat source • indifferent to feed or water. • Diarrhoea sometimes occurs. • poorly healed navels • bluish colour of the abdominal muscles |
| Ascarids (Large Intestinal Roundworms) | |
| Cecal Worms | |
| gape worms | • open-mouth breathing • grunting sound • difficulty breathing |
| Avian Pox | Fowl pox can come in two forms, wet or dry. dry form, • unfeathered areas have wart-like lesions that heal in about two weeks. wet form • lesions around the mouth • discharge from your eyes. |
| Lymphoid Leukosis | Chickens with lymphoid leukosis have few typical clinical signs. These may include: • inappetence • weakness • diarrhea • dehydration • emaciation • depressed before death On postmotem • enlarged bursa and liver • tumors, read more |
| Quil brochitis | No signs in chicken but in quil: • respiratory distress, coughing, sneezing, rales • nasal or ocular discharge • Loose, watery droppings • Conjunctivitis |
| Infectious Bursal Disease (Gumboro) | Gumboro has no symptoms of its own. But infections leaves the chick's immune system dented and thus it susceptible to many other infections. |
| Curly Toe paralysis | • unable to stand or walk • toes curled |
| Blackhead disease (histomoniasis) | listless drooping wings unkempt feathers yellow droppings. inflammation and ulcers in the cecum and liver |
| CAPILLARIA (CAPILLARY OR THREAD WORMS) | severe inflammation of intestines haemorrhage Erosion of the intestinal lining |
| Infectious Synovitis | • swollen, red, and warm hock joints. • limping and difficult painful in walking. |
