| Disease | Age
affected
|
Symptoms | Treatment |
| NCD | All | Depression, poor appetite, coughing and difficult breathing, diarrhea, nervous signs, twisted neck and death in large numbers in short time
|
Vaccination antibiotic to control secondary infections
|
| Fowl
pox
|
All but
serious at point of lay
|
Spreading eruption on comb, wattle nose & other featherless parts, poor appetite/egg production, depress ion. Deaths may result in chicks
|
Vaccination antibiotic to control secondary infections
|
| Infectious
Bronchitis
|
All | Chicks /growers: Depression, huddling, poor appetite, coughing, gasping/difficult breathing, death. Adult: Coughing/noisy breathing, few eggs laid/with soft shells
|
Vaccination Antibiotics to control secondary infections
|
| Avian
Influenza
|
All | Depression, coughing, discharge from eyes nostrils , swollen face, poor sight and feeding, nervous signs and diarrhea
|
Destroy sick birds
|
| IBD
|
2-6 wk | Depression, poor appetite, un-steady walk, pecking at vent and diarrhoea
|
Control by vaccination
|
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