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Common chicken diseases - fowl typhoid, fowl cholera

Avian typhoid

(1) Clinical symptoms

The incubation period of this disease is generally 4 to 5 days, with high morbidity and low mortality. 


The comb and wattle are pale, the comb is atrophied, the appetite is decreased, the thirst is increased, the body temperature rises to above 43°C, panting and breathing difficulties, diarrhea, light yellow-green loose feces (more common in young chickens and adult chickens) or white loose feces (more common in chicks); when peritonitis occurs, the chickens are in an upright position and become carriers after recovery.



When the chronic infection lasts for a long time, the sick chickens are extremely emaciated and die sporadically. The mortality rate is 10% to 50%, which is related to feeding management and breeding environment.

(2) Pathological changes

The lesions in young chickens are similar to those in pullorum, especially the lungs and myocardium, which often have gray-white nodular lesions

The livers of young and adult chickens are enlarged, showing a light brown-green or bronze color; there are scattered millet-like gray-white necrotic lesions on the surface of the myocardium, liver and testicles; the gallbladder is full; the spleen and kidneys are congested.

Swelling, with small necrotic lesions scattered on the surface.

The follicles of laying hens are hemorrhagic, deformed, and discolored, and the small intestine has catarrhal inflammation. The duodenum has dot-like or spot-like hemorrhages, and the intestinal contents are mostly green. The cecum has earthy yellow cheese-like emboli (similar cecums can also occur in enteritis-type Escherichia coli disease, pullorum, avian paratyphoid, histomoniasis, etc.), hemorrhagic spots on the colon mucosa, rectal granulomas, and adhesions between the intestinal tubes and swelling of lymphoid follicles.

In some cases, fibrous pericarditis, perihepatitis, and peritonitis can be seen.

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Fowl cholera

(1) Clinical symptoms

1. Most acute type

It is common in chickens during the peak egg-laying period. There are almost no symptoms and they die suddenly. Dead chickens are usually found in the morning.

2. Acute type Some cases are transformed from the most acute type. Sick chickens are listless, with ruffled feathers, difficulty breathing, and a large amount of mucus mixed with foam from the mouth and nose; the comb and wattle are cyanotic, the meat is edematous, and there is fever and pain; severe diarrhea, light yellow-green feces, body temperature rises to above 43°C, and most of them die within 1 to 3 days. The egg production of laying hens decreases or stops.

(2) Pathological changes

1. The most acute type

The course of disease is short, death is rapid, and pathological changes are usually not obvious. Some dead chickens have purple-red or purple-black combs and meat, bleeding spots on the epicardium, and gray-yellow or gray-white necrotic spots on the liver surface. Egg-laying hens often have "holding" eggs, and there are often intact eggs in the oviduct.

2. Acute type

Subcutaneous tissue, fat and mesentery, serosa and mucosa have bleeding spots of varying sizes.

Pericardial effusion is mostly light yellow or yellow-red clear liquid (this is similar to chicken pericardial effusion syndrome), sometimes mixed with cellulose flakes, etc.

The coronary sulcus, epicardium, endocardium and myocardium are congested and hemorrhaged. In severe cases, there are diffuse bleeding spots on the heart and coronary fat surface or they merge into bleeding spots of varying sizes.

The liver is enlarged and brittle, purple-red, brown-yellow or brown-red, with gray-yellow or gray-white necrotic spots of needle tip to needle size on the surface, and sometimes punctate bleeding.

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