Poultry Parasites Flashcards
What is red mite?
What is the treatment?
Dermanyssus gallinae
Adding Diatomacious Earth to dust baths/around housing
What causes scaly leg?
What are the clinical signs?
What is the treatment?
Knemidocoptes mutans
Surgical spirit and ivermectin
Causes lifting of the scales, crusting and thickening of the skin
What is the infectious form of Eimeria spp?
How is it transmitted
Sporulated oocysts
Oral-faecal route
What is the mechanism allowing Eimeria to enter enterocytes of the small intestine?
Gliding motility
What is Heterakis gallinarum a vector of?
What does this cause?
Histomonas meleagridis
“Black head” in Turkeys
What is the name for “Gapeworm” in poultry?
What does it look like and why?
Syngamus trachea
Y shaped “forked” due to the male and female worms being in permanent copulation
What is the name for a lice infestation?
What type of lice infest poultry?
Pediculosis
Chewing lice
What is Ornithonyssus bursae also called?
Northern Fowl mite
What is the name for “Gizzard worm” in poultry
Amidostomum anseris
Common in ducks and geese
What is the treatment for worms?
Flubendazole
What causes canker in poultry?
Trichomonas gallinae
What are the typical feature of these eggs? Ascarid spp:
Capillaria
Coccidial oocyst
Thick walled
Bipolar plug each end
Round
