General limitation period for the validation of rights of warranty in case of sale of animals:
1 year
Exclusion of liability:
may be excluded with mutual agreement
The exclusion (of liability) is not valid:
- If caused intentionally, by serious negligence, or by crime
- The animal damages life, physical integrity, health
- There is no proper compensation
What should be proven by the buyer in case of defective performance?
defect, significance, origin
Common mistakes of veterinary experts
- Not up to date methods
- Definite without reason
- Giving opinion in questions beyond his competence
- True statement but not justified/ explained enough
- Not taking into account the specialities of the case, stereotyped
- Not clear enough to everybody (e.g.professional terms without explanation)
- Not keeping the deadline (may ask for postpone)
Significance of teeth problems in horses:
- Alter dental function
- Could not be treated
- Risky, expensive intervention
- Removal of tooth: surgery
- Consequent GI disease
Fowl cholera diagnostics:
it cannot be diagnosed in live animals – pathological findings, lab exam (AB sensitivity test is necessary!)
Fowl cholera significance
depending on rate of death – eggshell contamination but there is no germinative transmission
Fowl cholera significance:
- P. multocida (carrier) & predisposing factors
- Clinical signs w/in 24h: could be originated back before the time of delivery
- After 24h: was there any fowl cholera outbreak at the seller during the previous 1 year (carrier
state) ? - Has he informed the buyer about the previous outbreak?
- Other source of infection at the buyer (isolation, all in all out system?)
- Predisposing factors (transport, force-feedingetc)
Origin for Avian leukosis
Origin: clinical signs only in case of infection before the age of 10 weeks (not incubation period, just time of susceptibility)
- Over 10 weeks- at delivery: it is originated back before delivery
- under 10 weeks- time of delivery: either germinative or contact infection before the age of 10 weeks: epidemic investigation
Diagnosis of mushy chicken disease
Clinical signs, Pathological findings, Mortality, Lab exams
Clinical signs: of mushy chicken disease
weak,low body weight (minus variants)
Pathological findings: of mushy chicken disease
triad – yolk sac persistence, omphalitis, improper closing of the navel
Mortality of mushy chicken disease
1-10days
Lab exams of mushy chicken disease
excluding other infectious & non-infectious diseases
