Exotics backyard poultry

Question 1

Why should we be careful about allowing chickens to access long grass

Answer 1

Can predispose to crop statis

Question 2

When might we see coccidiosis issues

Answer 2

In young birds or in ex battery hens not yet exposed to them

Question 3

When does moulting happen in laying hens

Answer 3

At end of a period of lay; classically Autumn or spring and related to change in light levels
- Takes 5-6 weeks to regrow

Question 4

What does a white comb suggest; what about blue

Answer 4

White comb = anaemia
Blue comb = resp disease/general poor health

Question 5

Symptoms of mycoplasma

Answer 5

Bubbly eyes, sinusitis, sinus swelling
Reduced appetite, depressed

Flare ups in periods of stress

Question 6

Treatment of mycoplasma

Answer 6

Tylosin antibiotic, nebulisation

Question 7

What is the cause of infectious bronchitis and what symptoms

Answer 7

Transient resp signs
Then egg changes

Due to coronavirus

Question 8

Treatment of infectious bronchitis

Answer 8

Can’t get rid of virus - should cull birds

Question 9

With many poultry must you register the holding

Answer 9

50+

Question 10

Notifiable respiratory conditions affecting poultry

Answer 10

Avian influenza
Newcastle disease

Question 11

Cause of newcastle disease

Answer 11

Paramyxovirus

Question 12

What is canker

Answer 12

trichomoniasis

Question 13

How to treat trichomoniasis in backyard poultry

Answer 13

Can’t; treatments banned as farm animals
Could try apple cider vinegar

Question 14

Possible causes of impacted crop

Answer 14

Ingesting long grass or string etc
+ poor crop function; stasis, lymphoma
+ parasite burden

Question 15

What is sour crop and how do we treat

Answer 15

Fermentation of material in crop usually due to candida yeast; treat with nystatin

Question 16

Treating coccidiosis in backyard poultry

Answer 16

Baycox (toltrazuril)

Question 17

Do backyard eggs cause salmonella illness

Answer 17

Not seen so far; but these chickens aren’t vaccinated

Question 18

Causes of egg issues; egg binding, soft shelled eggs

Answer 18

Calcium deficiency
Infectious bronchitis
Beginning of laying season

Question 19

Treating cloacal prolapse

Answer 19

TREAT AS EMERGENCY; risk of mutilation from self or flockmates
- Replace and give suprelorin implant to stop egg production

Question 20

causes of feather picking

Answer 20

Parasites
Pruritis
Overcrowding.bullying
Lack of protein/grit

Question 21

Dealing with corns

Answer 21

Probably surgery needed rather than antibiotics
- Remove corns, clean, poultice, bandage

Question 22

What is the cause of scaly leg

Answer 22

Mites
- Treat with ivermectin

Question 23

Which mite is very pruritic to chickens

Answer 23

Feather mite; find on feather shaft

Question 24

Withdrawel for licensed ivermectin in chickens

Answer 24

7 days

Question 25

Fowl pox

Answer 25

Lesions around head Should euthanise No vaccine

Question 26

Symptoms of marek's disease

Answer 26

Lameness to spastic paralysis, often unilateral due to demyelination of femoral/sciatic nerve

Question 27

Cause of meningitis

Answer 27

Bacterial infection via wound

Question 28

Which antibiotic has a wording on product sheet that suggests can use in birds for human consumption if using 28 day withdrawel

Answer 28

Marbofloxacin

Question 29

Do ducks with hypothermia and hyperthermia during surgery

Answer 29

hyperthermic due to fat layers

Question 30

What can cause bilateral leg paralysis in water birds in summer

Answer 30

Clostridia