Every year chicken farmers undergo huge losses due to diseases on the farm. Therefore disease management is a huge consideration for anyone wanting to run a viable chicken farming business. Being able to recognise and respond to a disease attack on the farm is vital to have effective control of the attack. The table below helps you identify some common diseases and what you can do about them.
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.
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.
• 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
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
• 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
• 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
listless
drooping wings
unkempt feathers
yellow droppings.
inflammation and ulcers in the cecum and liver
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.
Cannibalism
chicken pecking each other
CAPILLARIA (CAPILLARY OR THREAD WORMS)
severe inflammation of intestines
haemorrhage
Erosion of the intestinal lining
No signs in chicken but in quil:
• respiratory distress, coughing, sneezing, rales
• nasal or ocular discharge
• Loose, watery droppings
• Conjunctivitis
Scratching
too much scratching with feet and beaks.
making noise
