Dr. Hamid Zehtab
5- If the chicken has movement problems and signs:
If there is leg weakness and inability to walk, there is usually a problem of lack of minerals, especially phosphorus, which responds quickly to treatment.
If we have a sprained toe and the sciatic nerve is swollen, we have a deficiency of vitamin B2 (riboflavin), which immediately gives a positive response to the use of BCOMPLEX.
Stargazing usually occurs before 2 weeks of age due to B1 (thiamine) deficiency.
Lack of B6 (pyridoxine) causes a decrease in production and hatching, ruffled feathers, extreme craziness and chickens running around the hall.
If we have one leg out of the vertical axis, we are facing manganese deficiency.
If we have swelling in the rabbit joint, we are dealing with mycoplasmic arthritis (after the fourth week and usually with a chest blister or blister and respiratory symptoms) or staphylococcal. In staphylococcal swelling, the foot joint is often involved. (Pillow abscess) Microbial culture helps in subtraction.
If the femoral head breaks during the autopsy, we have femoral head necrosis (FHN). It has a bacterial cause, but there is no treatment due to the lack of penetration of antibiotics into the bone. The main cause in most cases is Staphylococcus aureus. In hatcheries, bedding eggs can increase horizontal transmission.
If urate deposits are observed in the joints (white spots and wavy chalk on the heart and kidneys, air sacs, viscera and joints), we have articular or visceral gout. Due to the reduction of water consumption, the high protein of the diet 30-40% and extra calcium (3% more).
If the joint contains straw-colored exudate, we have viral infectious synovitis (reovirus). Rupture of gastrocnemius tendon and achilles tendon, accumulation of yellow axuda in the rabbit joint is also seen. Greenish discoloration with bleeding under the skin with swelling above the rabbit joint due to tendon rupture.
In the syndrome of infectious growth delay in small and bloated chickens, ruffled and broken feathers and pregastric inflammation are seen up to 2-3 times their normal size.
Falling into a chicken’s lap and pedaling, leaning the head into two legs or to the side, and epistotonus and walking backwards are due to vitamin E deficiency.
Excessive drinking, muscle weakness and imbalance, convulsions and death, and in the carcass ascites, hyperemia and bleeding of the organs, hydropericardium and diarrhea are the symptoms of salt poisoning.
Imbalance, abrasion of the ends of the feather roots, which leads to the breaking and loss of feathers, walking like a goose (goose stopping) are symptoms of zinc deficiency.