Publisher's Synopsis
No matter what you use your chickens for, keeping your birds happy and healthy is always a priority in raising them. Healthy chickens mean a better profit for your hatchery. To keep your birds healthy and free of poultry diseases, your biosecurity needs to be up to snuff.
This book describes and explains how diseases could affect your chickens and also what treatments you can use to cure them. This edition contains the following chapters:
Areas of a chicken
General criteria
How to clean a chicken coop
The anatomy of the birds
How to recognize a sick bird
How to administer medication to your chickens
Adding medication in drinking water
Adding medication in feed
Liquid medication
Injectable medication
First aid kit for your chickens
The most important poultry diseases and the use of vaccinations
Shell-less or thin-shelled eggs
Trauma at chickens
Poor general condition
Forced feeding
Parasites
External parasites
Scaly Leg Mite (Cnemidocoptes mutans)
The depluming itch mite (Cnemidocoptes gallina)
The air sac mites (Cytodites nudus)
Sticktight flea (Echidnophaga gallinacea)
Syringophilus bipectinate
Dermanyssus gallinae
Cannibalism
Internal parasites
Trichomoniasis (Trichomonas gallinae)
Hair worm (Capillariasis)
Gapeworm (Syngamus Trachea)
Eimeria (Coccidiosis)
Histomoniasis
Ascariasis
Molting
The appetite and the digestive system
The bird didn't want to eat and drink
The birds eat too much
When the bird has diarrhea
Enteritis (inflammation of the intestines)
Constipation
Excessive weight loss
Crop diseases
Gingivitis
Impacted crop
Respiratory system problems
Abundant nose secretions
Sense organs problems
Infection of the ears
Infertility problems
Nervous system problems
Twirling or Torticollis
Accidents and injuries of the limb
Sprains and dislocations
Fractures
Intoxication of the chickens
Bird diseases which could affect humans
Contagious diseases at birds
Prevention of diseases
Viral diseases
Avian influenza (Fowl Plague)
Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease)
Avian encephalomyelitis
Newcastle disease (Avian pseudo pest)
Avian pox or Fowl pox
Marek`s disease
Egg Drop Syndrome (Avian Adenoviruses)
Bacterial diseases
Avian Pseudomonas
Avian Colibacillosis
Infectious avian Coryza
Avian Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium)
Salmonellosis
Salmonella Pullorum and Salmonella
Gallinarum
Psittacosis or parrot fever
Pasteurellosis
Avian respiratory mycoplasmosis
Mycotic diseases
Candida (Candidiasis)
Aspergillosis
