IDENTIFY THE POULTRY DISEASE AFFECTING THIS BIRD

Poultry diseases are great threat to the success of any poultry farm. Poultry disease is a traumatic condition that makes poultry farming a frustrating and unproductive one; also chides prospective poultry farmers from the business. Poultry diseases are deviations from the normal state of the birds' health.

Poultry birds have different behavioral patterns that attest to their wellness, it is obvious and can be seen or observed by the farmer. These are signs of healthy birds. Such birds are alerted with bright comb; they eat adequately and produce optimally. Any change in this normal behavior shows there is a problem within.

A change in the normal behavioral patterns of poultry birds is the beginning of an outbreak of a disease, most times; diseases are observed through clinical signs or symptoms the poultry bird exhibit. Different poultry diseases show different signs or symptoms on different parts of the birds. Some diseases makes the bird’s comb looks pale; some the legs become paralyzed while others are observed from the color or physical properties of the droppings the bird passes out.

A healthy bird droppings

Most of the deadly poultry diseases are observed from the droppings of the bird. The nature or physical properties, in terms of color and texture, of the poultry droppings is a great way to know the health status of the birds. This is why poultry farmers are often advised to pay rapt attention to the nature, especially the color, of the droppings of their birds. A healthy poultry bird’s dropping is always in form of a knot, grayish in color with white patches around it as seen above; anything aside from this means the birds are becoming sick and need swift medical attention.

Look at the picture below; it is a dropping of a poultry bird. It looks like a syrup and brownish in color. What do you think is wrong with this bird? Is it a poultry disease caused by bacteria, fungi or virus? Identify the disease and give likely preventive or curative measures.