Symptoms That Occur Through The Body | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Emaciation... | Off-feed; nutritional deficiencies; lymphoid leukosis; enteritis; gizzard impaction; tuberculosis; unknown |
Stunted, uneven growth.... | Gizzard impaction; bluecomb disease; alfatoxin poisoning; synovitis; contaminated hatching egg |
Swellings... | Ruptured air sac; edema |
Twitching, muscular spasm... | Botulism; infectious bursal disease |
Trembling... | Epidemic tremors; encephalitis (brain damage) |
Paralysis... | Botulism; Marek's disease; arthritis; aflatoxin poisoning; epidemic tremor |
Dehydration... | Acute lack of water; coccidiosis; infectious bursal disease; nutritional imbalance-dietary salts |
Nervousness... | Hysteria; drug intoxication; Newcastle; fungus infection |
Lying on breast, legs paralyzed... | Algae poisoning; acute lack of water; yellow jasmine poisoning; botulism;drug toxicity |
Symptoms Occurring Through The Feathers | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Moist under wing... | Infectious coryza |
Loss of... | Molting |
Deposits at base of shafts... | Lice or mite eggs |
Soiled hackle feathers... | Infectious coryza, eye infection |
Feathers picked... | Lice; nutritional deficiency-methionine; birds not debeaked |
Depigmented... | Nutritional deficiencies-lysine, iron or folic acid |
Broken on upper thigh... | Self picking |
Feather eating... | Nutritional deficiency-methionine |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Skin | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Pigmentation excessive ... | Poor production; high pigment intake |
Nodules, mainly legs... | Marek's disease |
Nodules over vent... | Flukes (rare) |
Moist, necrotic, edematous... | Necrotic dermatitis, exudative diathesis |
Darkened, purplish... | Erysipelas; fowl cholera |
Crusted areas... | Erysipelas; scab; gangrenous dermatitis |
Scabby hip... | Self picking, inflicted by other birds |
Gangrenous, green... | Hemmorhage; arthritis; gangrenous dermatitis |
Vent irritated... | Northern fowl mite; lice (occasionally) |
Pale... | Anemia; nutritional deficiencies-iron, copper, or vitamin B12 |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Head | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Swollen, puffy... | Ruptured air sac; infectious coryza; injury; Newcastle disease |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Comb | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Mottled, red and white margins... | Frozen |
Eruptions, nodules... | Fowl pox |
White, scaly, powdery... | Favus |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Eyes | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Watery... | Infectious coryza |
Blindness... | Fowl pox; aspergillosis; Arizona paracolon; paratyphoid |
Watery, red, inflamed, closed... | Laryngotracheitis; ammonia burn; Newcastle disease; nutritional deficiency-vitamin A |
Cataracts... | Epidemic tremor |
Crusts on eye lids... | Nutritional deficiency-vitamin A; fowl pox |
Pupil irregular, blindness... | Marek's disease |
Blood in eye... | Hemorrhagic anemia |
Large, swollen... | Mycoplasma infection |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Face | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Swollen... | Infectious coryza; Newcastle disease; nutritional deficiency-vitamin A; E. coli |
Darkened, purplish... | Erysipelas; fowl cholera; septicemia; injury |
Nodules... | Fowl pox |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Nostrils | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Discharge... | Infectious coryza; chronic respiratory disease; infectious bronchitis; influenza |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Mouth | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Pustules... | Nutritional deficiency-vitamin A |
Crusts at margins... | Nutritional deficiencies-pantothenic acid or biotin |
Beak soft, rubbery... | Nutritional deficiencies-vitamin D or calcium-phosphorus imbalances |
White coat over tongue and in mouth... | Wet form of fowl pox |
Ulcers... | Mycotoxins; chemical injury |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Wattles | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Swollen, bulbous... | Infectious coryza; fowl cholera |
Nodules... | Fowl pox |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Neck | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Paralysis (limber neck)... | Botulism; yellow jasmine poisoning |
Twisting... | Newcastle disease; fowl cholera; brain infection; improper injection of Marek's vaccine |
Retracted over back... | Newcastle disease; nutritional deficiency-thiamin |
Retracted under breast... | Nutritional deficency-vitamin E; Newcastle disease |
Scabby necrotic areas... | Improper injection of drugs; other injury |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Legs | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Paralysis... | Marek's disease; botulism; heat stoke; epidemic tremor; cage layer fatigue; vitamin E deficiency; algae poisoning; yellow jasmine poisoning; acute lack of water |
Rough, scaly... | Fowl pox; scaly leg mite |
Bowed, weak... | Nutritional deficiency-vitamin D; osteodystrophy |
Bone bends... | Nutritional deficiency-vitamin D |
Joint swelling... | Infectious synovitis; paratyphoid; pullorum; zinc deficiency; staphylococcosis; tenosynovitis; arthritis |
Tendon at hock displaced... | Perosis (nutritional deficiency-manganese or choline) |
Stilted gait... | Tenosynovitis |
Shank depigmented... | Nutritional deficiency-vitamin A; coccidiosis; any low grade slow disease (for any length of time) |
Toes twisted... | Genetic |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Feet | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Joints fixed... | Tenosynovitis |
Swollen foot pad... | Infectious synovitis; bumblefoot |
Toes curled... | Nutritional deficiency-riboflavin; genetic; management deficiency |
Foot pad cracked, dermatitis... | Nutritional deficiency-biotin or pantothenic acid; management deficiency |
Bird walks on toes... | Tenosynovitis |
Toes twisted... | Genetic |
Symptoms That Occur Through The Droppings | |
Symptoms | Possible Cause |
Profuse... | Enteritis; excess roughage in diet |
Bloody... | Cecal coccidiosis; Newcastle disease |
Green... | Feed intake low; bile not diluted |
Sulfur yellow... | Blackhead |
Light yellow or yellowish-green... | Fowl typhoid; fowl cholera |
Foamy... | Intestinal parasites (protozoa) |
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