Practical Guide to Broiler Health Management
Practical Guide to Broiler Health Management
Author: Dr. Imre Horváth-PappVets working on broiler and breeder farms, agricultural technicians and managers involved in the poultry industry and veterinary students will all find Practical Guide to Broiler Health Management an invaluable source of information in their day-today activities.
This practical and concise handbook takes a fresh look at the complex physiological pathological and nutritional issues affecting the modern broiler chicken, in the context of the efficient economic management of broiler farms. Split into two main sections, this book covers:
- Essential tips on monitoring the health of broiler chickens and management processes which are crucial for the prevention and control of disease.
- Individual chapters on the identification, prevention and management of the most common and important disease, including avian influenza, infections bronchitis and infectious bursal disease.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2008
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Extent:426 pp
ISBN: 978 963 06 6219 2
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- Introduction
- General disease recognition and animal health management
- History
- Health monitoring
- Necropsy
- Mortality curves
- Service period
- Biosecurity
- Feed management
- Drinking water management
- Ventilation
- Litter management
- Chicken uniformity
- Stress factors
- Thinning/Trimming
- The role of serological monitoring in the prevention of infectious diseases
- Epidemiology
- Respiratory diseases
- Avian Influenza
- Avian Pneumovirus Infection
- Aspergillosis
- Colibacillosis
- Infectious Coryza
- Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILTV)
- Infectious Bronchitis
- Mycoplasmosis
- Newcastle Disease
- ORT/Ornithobacterium Rhinotracheale
- Pasteurellosis
- Enteric diseases
- Adenovirus Associated Lymphoid Infiltration
- Candidiasis (Crop mycocis, Moniliasis
- Coccidiosis
- Malabsorption Syndrome
- Necrotic Enteritis
- Fowl Typhoid - Pullorum Disease
- Metabolic disorders
- Ascites Syndrome
- Sudden Death Syndrome
- Uricosis
- Diseases of the immune system
- Infectious Bursal Disease
- Chicken Anaemia Virus (CAV)
- Mycotoxins
- Diseases of the locomotory system
- Foot pad dermatitis
- Tibial Dyschondroplasia
- Diseases of the nervous system
- Avian Encephalomyelitis
- Neoplastic diseases
- Marek's Disease
- References
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