Poultry genetic diseases

Question 1

gout

Answer 1

recurrent inflammatory arthritis - red, hot and swollen joint. due to persistant elevated levels of uric acid in the blood, accumilating in the joints. (visceral gout in the renal tubules, liver, mesentary)

Question 2

dwarfism

Answer 2

growth delay prior to birth, shorter statue, lower birth weight, autosomal recessive trait

Question 3

embryonic losses

Answer 3

mortality due to embryonic lethal mutations - sticky embryos and embryo malformations

Question 4

chrondrodystrophy

Answer 4

embryonic lethal: wingless, limbless, missing maxilla, mandible, beak

Question 5

hatching disorders

Answer 5

LETHAL: albinism, ataxia(lack of vol. muscle coordination), blindness, nakedness, leg deformation

Question 6

adult disorders

Answer 6

turkey: PSE meat(Pale, Soft, Exudative(fluid)), aorta rupture

cardiomyopathy: disease of the heart