Check Poultry Symptoms

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Choose the symptom that best describes your poultry. If there are multiple symptoms, check each of them separately.

"honeycomb" skin
"lay" a caseous mass of pus
Abdominal swelling
Abnormal feathers
Anemia
Ataxia
Beak blackening
Birds go off legs
Birds rest squatting
Blackened skin on foot
Blindness
Blood from vent
Blood in droppings
Blood in mouth
Blood-stained vent
Caseous deposits in mouth, throat or trachea
Cellulitis
Cessation of normal flock vocalisation
Chirping
Chondrodystrophy
Circling
Closed eyes
Cloudiness in eye
Coma
Congested peripheral vessels
Conjunctivitis
Convulsions
Coughing
Coughing up blood
Coughing up mucus
Crop distension
Crusty skin
Cyanosis
Damaged vent
Dark comb and wattles
Darkening of the head
Death
Dehydration
Depression
Diarrhea
Difficulty breathing
Distortion of hock
Diuresis
Drooling
Drooping wings
Drop in egg production
Drop in hatchability
Dull expression
Eating litter
Embryo with clubbed down
Embryonic mortality
Encephalopathy
Enlarged hocks
Enlargement of abdomen
Enlargement of bursa
Enlargement of crop
Enlargement of liver
Excessive urates
Eyelid stuck shut with thick exudate
Face swelling
Falling over
Fatty liver and kidney syndrome
Feather loss
Feet swelling
Flaccid neck
Flocks have poorer than average productivity
Flocks have poorer than average uniformity
Foot skin erosion
Foot skin fibrosis
Frothy diarrhea
Gangrenous skin
Gaping
Gasping
Gastrocnemius tendon rupture
Green droppings
Green wings
Grey iris
Head shaking
Head swelling
Hock swelling
Huddling
Huddling near heat
Hyperactivity
Hyperexcitability
Imbalance
Incoordination
Increased condemnations
Increased vocalisation
Irregular pupil
Irritation
Jaundice
Keel bone bruising
Keel bone discoloration
Keel bone swelling
Knee bowing
Knee joint sweling
Lameness
Leaking urates
Leg deformity
Leg problems
Leg splay
Leg weakness
Legs outstretched
Lethargy
Lice eggs stuck to feathers
Listlessness
Long bone extremity dislocation
Loose feathers
Loss of appetite
Loss of condition
Loss of down
Loss of egg shell pigment
Loss of thirst
Loss of vent feathers
Loss of voice
Low mobility
Mange lesion on legs and unfeathered parts
Membrane covering tongue
Moult
Mouth lesions
Mouth open
Mucus in droppings
Muscular shivering
Nasal discharge
Neck tucked in
Nervous signs
Nervousness
Ocular discharge
Omphalitis
Orange droppings
Overweight
Pale bone marrows
Pale comb and wattles
Pale shanks
Pale skin
Panting
Paralysis
Parasites around vent
Paresis (partial paralysis)
Pecking at other poultry
Penile prolapse
Perineal congestion
Photophobia
Picking at feed
Pigment in droppings
Poor feathering
Poor growth
Poor internal quality of eggs
Presence of grey to red mites up to 0.7 mm
Prostration
Pulling feather of other poultry
Pulling own feathers
Raised thickened scales
Rales
Rapid breathing
Rapidly spreading disease
Rattling noises
Redenning of skin
Reduced breeding performance
Reduced hatchability
Reduced hatched chick viability
Reduced water consumption
Remor
Repeated swallowing movements
Respiratory signs
Restless
Retracted neck
Rough eggs
Ruffled feathers
Runting
Scabby skin
Scabs around beak
Scabs around eyes
Scabs around vent
Scaly comb
Scaly skin
Seeking heat
Serious disease in the progeny
Shaking or quivering legs after rising
Shank swelling
Shell-less eggs
Short legs
Silent gasping
Sinusitis
Sitting on hock or rumps
Skin around feather follicles raised and roughened
Skin blemishes
Skin depigmentation
Slipped gastrocnemius tendon
Slipping of achillis tendon (or perosis), malposition of leg distal to hock
Sneezing
Snick
Soft beak
Soft bones
Soft-shelled eggs
Soiled beak
Sporadic loss of lay
Spots on eggs
Staff complaints - itching
Staggering
Stands on toes shaking
Stunting
Subnormal body temperature
Sudden death
Sudden rise in mortality
Swarms of flies
Swollen eyelids
Swollen eyes
Swollen face
Swollen joints
Swollen sinuses
Swollen snood
Swollen wattles
Tendon sheath swelling
Thickened skin between toes
Thickened skin in embyos
Thickened skin under pad
Thin-shelled eggs
Thirst
Torticollis
Tremors
Tucked appearance
Twisted neck
Unable to stand
Uncontrolled movements
Uneven growth
Unsteady gait
Use of wings to help in walking
Vent pasting
Vent pecking
Ventral edema
Vision impairment
Walk backwards
Warty, spreading eruptions on comb and wattles
Warty, spreading scabs on comb and wattles
Watery eyes
Weakness
Weight loss
Wet litter
White spots, crust or scab on comb and wattles
Wings outstretched
Yellow droppings

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