Respiratory disease in poultry Flashcards
Look at poultry integrator system?
What environmental factors effect respiratory disease?
Outline some broiler site statistics?
- All in all out system
- 7 day turnaround
- ~30,000 birds per house
- 4-7 houses per site
- Whole house brooding
- >20 lux lighting (4 hours dark/day)
- Pan feeders
- Nipple drinkers
- All have to be on concrete floors for hygiene and salmonella control
- When chicks arrive they are 50g
- Shavings used as bedding
- Controlled ventilation/humidity
- Thinning at 35 days, depleted 42 days
- Stocking level = 33Kg/m² (25kg/m² for broiler breeders)
Discuss laying systems in UK?
- Enriched cages 750cm² to include 600cm² of useable area
- Barn layers should be stocked @ 9 birds/m²
- Free-range layers should have the same internal space and there should be no more than 2500 hens/ha on the range
Discuss UK turkey production?
- UK Turkey Production
- Breeders use artificial insemination due to size discrepancy between males and females
- Young turkeys are reared in brood rings
- Often stags are grown to six weeks, then moved to grow-out accommodation (brood and move can be a cause of stress)
- Hens: all in/all out single site systems
Give a lung and air sac overview?
Not surprise we see resp disease so frequently in reared poultry as they have delicate air sac structures .
Inspiration one: caudal airsac (inspired air goes there before lungs)
- On PM therefore more likely to see air sacculitis first
What are the clinical parameters?
Hen may mouth breathe initially in consult but if this does not go away as she calms then this is something to be concerned about
What are the respiratory disease clinical signs in poultry?
- Coughing (snicking)
- Sneezing
- Ruffled feathers
- Huddling
- Ocular/nasal discharges
- Discharge on wing feathers
- bletharospasm
- Conjunctivitis
- Sinusitis
- Head shaking
- Swollen heads
- Inappetent
- Abnormal water consumption
- Mortality (flipovers)
- In a shed want to see even spread of birds if they are all clumped this is indicative of disease.
What the differential diagnosis for the coughing bird in all poultry?
Avian influenza
Newcastle disease
What are the differential diagnosis for the coughing bird in hens?
Hens:
- Infectious Bronchitis (IB)(sneezing)
- Avian Rhinotracheitis (ART) (sneezing)
- Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT) (gasping)
- Mycoplasma gallisepticum (Mg)
- Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale (ORT)
- Pasteurella multocida
- Infectious Coryza
- E. coli
- Gapeworm (gasping)
What are the differential diagnosis for the coughing bird in turkeys?
Turkeys:
- Turkey rhinotracheitis (TRT) (sneezing)
- Pasteurella multocida
- E. coli
- Mycoplasma gallisepticum (Mg)
- Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale (ORT)
What are the differential diagnosis for the coughing bird in ducks?
Ducks:
- E. coli
- Reimerella anatipestifer (sneezing)
- Aspergillosis
Discuss avian influenza?
- Will infect, but not necessarily affect all poultry species
- Turkeys are most susceptible to mortality
- Waterfowl, esp. ducks, carry disease with no mortality and no clinical signs
Why is avian influenza notifiable?
- Massive economic loss in an uncontrolled outbreak
- Welfare issue of high mortality and morbidity
- Possible zoonotic risk (though no human cases of last year’s H5N8)
- LPAI (H5 or H7) could mutate to HPAI
What does avian influenza look like?
H and N are important because:
- H is for attachment to and release within cells, N allows the virus to leave the cell (KEYS)
- They define species specificity
- We can easily target them with vaccines
Why are we so concerned about avian influenza?
We are concerned because it can cause massive mortality in poultry also if it occurs during human flu outbreak may lead to pandemic if it mutates
Discuss highly pathogenic and low pathogenic influenza A in poultry?
Highly pathogenic
- severe disease
- high mortality up to 100%
- to date only[but not all] viruses of H5 or H7 subtype
- Swollen comb and wattles
Low pathogenic
- mild respiratory disease, depression, egg production problems
- may exacerbate other infections/conditions
What are the clinical signs of avian influenza?
High Pathogenic virus infection
- Anorexia
- Mortality –up to 100% in 36 hours
- Respiratory signs −Coughing (snicking), sneezing, ruffled feathers, swollen heads
- Nervous signs like depression
- Diarrhoea
Discuss low pathogenic avian influenza?
Low Pathogenic virus infection
- Anorexia
- Respiratory signs (like HP)
- Nervous signs
- Diarrhoea
- Egg production drop
- Blood seen at nose and cloaca
Discuss newcastle disease?
Paramyxovirus type 1
5 pathotypes:
Viscerotropic velogenic –high mortality with haemorrhages
Neurotropic velogenic –high mortality following respiratory and nervous signs
Mesogenic –low mortality following respiratory & nervous signs
Lentogenic respiratory –mild respiratory disease
Asymptomatic enteric –inapparent enteric infection
What are the clinical signs of newcastle disease?
Respiratory signs -Coughing, sneezing, ruffled feathers, swollen heads
Nervous signs -Depression -Ataxia -Prostration
Opisthotonus
Mortality –similar to AI
Egg drop -Soft shelled eggs -Concentric rings on shell
What species are affected by Newcastle disease?
- Will infect, but not necessarily affect all breeds of avian (over 250 species found to be carriers)
- Racing Pigeons were the cause of the January 2018 outbreak in French Poultry
- Any migrating bird poses a potential risk
Discuss vaccination for newcastle disease and AI?
Newcastle Disease
- All commercial layers are vaccinated (2 x live & 2 inactivated in rear)
- All broiler breeders are vaccinated
- Hitchner B1(MSD), NDW (Zoetis), Avinew (Boehringer-Ingelheim)
AI
- No vaccination allowed under control programme