Poultry disease

Poultry diseases are diseases that afflict poultry. Major types of poultry include the chicken, turkey, duck, goose and ostrich.

A chicken showing symptoms of avian pox

The eradication of poultry disease is very important to the poultry industry.

Viral diseases

• Chicken anaemia virus
• Infectious bursal disease also known as IBD or Gumboro disease
• Lymphoid leukosis caused by avian sarcoma leukosis virus
• Marek's disease
• Newcastle disease
• Viral arthritis
• Avian influenza
• Fowl pox
• Epidemic tremor
• Laryngotracheitis

Parasitic diseases

• Scaly leg, caused by the mite Knemidocoptes mutans
• Infestations:
  • Dermanyssus gallinae, the red poultry mite
  • Echidnophaga gallinacea, the stickfast flea
• Worms in chickens

Bacterial diseases

• Colibacillosis in poultry
• Infectious coryza in chickens
• Ornithobacterium rhinotracheale
• Pullorum disease
• Riemerella anatipestifer
• Salmonellosis in poultry
• Staphylococcal infection in poultry
• Streptococcal infection in poultry
• Omphalitis in chicks (mushy chick disease)
• Mycoplasmosis
• Fowl cholera
• Campylobacteriosis
• Pseudomonas
• Ornithobacteriosis

Protozoal diseases

• Histomoniasis (blackhead disease), caused by Histomonas meleagridis
• Coccidiosis

Fungal diseases

• Ergotism
• Aspergillosis
• Sour crop
• Ringworm

See also

• Poultry