Poultry Diseases & treatment

Poultry diseases and treatment

Dr. Mujeeb Ather Asst. Director (Pathologist)
Veterinary Biological Research Institute, Hyderabad .

• Vitamin A

1. Reduced production & hatchability
2. Hyper keratosis of mucous - membrane of mouth & esophagus.
3. Blood in the egg.

Blood in the egg

• Vitamin D:

1. Rickets & Osteomalasia
2. Decreased Hatchability

Deformity of keel bone

3. Vitamin E:

1. Encephalomalacia
2. Decreased Hatchability

Haemorrhages in thigh muscles

• Vitamin B1: (Thiamine):

1.Loss of appetite, retarded growth

Paralysis

• Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin):
• Decreased Hatchability
• Embryonic mortality during incubation (dead - in -shell_
• Hatched chicks may be dwarf & oedematous.
• Leg Paralysis

Curled toe paralysis

• Pantothenic acid:
• Dermatitis, retarded growth and ruffled feathers.
• Scale like lesions in the corners of mouth & eyelid margins.
• Decreased hatchability with the early embryonic

• Vitamin B 6 (Pyridoxin)
• Poor growth & Nervous signs.
• Chicks run aimlessly
• Chicks may roll completely on their backs with rapid jerking motions of their feet and head.

• Biotin
• Dermatitis of the feet and skin around beak and eyes.

• Folic acid
• Increased Embryonic Mortality.
• Embryos Die soon after peeping.