Backyard Poultry Flashcards
What are outdoor hybrid poultry breeds?
- Black rock
- Calder Ranger
- Blue belle
- Speckledy
- Amber star
What are pure breeds?
- Ancona
- Brahma
- Cochin
- Malay
- New Hampshire Red
- Old English Game Bantam
- Plymouth Rock
- Scots Grey
What are commercial laying hybrids?
- Isa brown
- Hissex brown
- Hy-line
What are commercial meat hybrids?
- Ross
- Cobb
- Hubbard
What history should be taken with a phone call?
- Location
- Housing - environment
- Management - feed, water, vermin
- Flock details - source, health
- Biosecurity measures
Why is housing important? what needs to be regulated?
- Protection - adverse weather + predators
- Temperature
- Ventilation
- Dustiness
- Ammonia / other gas development
What can improper handling lead to?
- Respiratory distress
- Skeletal injuries
- Stress
- Dead
What are normal TPR for poultry?
- Temp = 40-42 oC
- HR = 120-160 bpm
- RR = 20-130 brpm
When assessing a bird what should be checked?
- Temp
- Mouth
- Oropharynx
- External parasites
- Vent
- Abdomen
- Feathers
What are external parasites of birds?
- Lice
- Red mite
- Northern fowl mite
- Scaly leg mite
- De-plumbing mite
Where can you take blood samples of birds?
- Wing vein
- Right jugular vein
How can faecal samples be collected?
- Cloacal swab
- Dropping
What worm eggs could be seen?
- Gizzard worm
- Trichostrongyle
- Heterakis
- Gapeworm
- Capilaria
Protozoal = Eimeria spp
What can be used for imaging?
- Radiography
- Ultrasound
- Endoscopy
What should be seen in normal bird?
- Dry nostril
- Red comb
- Bright eyes
- Normal shaped beak
- Present + shiny feathers
- Clean vent
- Straight toes
What are skeletal conditions of birds?
- Fractures
- Kyphosis
- Scoliosis
- Spondylosis
- Bent breastbone
- Rickets
- Bent toes
What glands do birds have?
- Uropygieal / preen gland = produce lipid secretion for feather maintenance
- Within outer auditory canal
- Ventral glands of cloaca
What are the functions of feathers?
- Flight
- Insulation value = temp regulation + incubation/brooding
- Behaviour
- Moulting
What is a brood patch?
- Mostly caudal half of the ventral apterium (eg. Raptors, pigeon and passerines
- Hormon controlled
- Prior to laying, brood patch looses all/part feathers and highly vascularised
- Many thermo-receptors
- Subsequent cycle of moulting, feathers regrown
What are problems related to feathers?
- Feather pecking
- Moulting
- Wing clipping
- Nutrition
- De-plumbing mite
How do you perform wing clipping?
- Cut first 10 primary feathers on one wing - stop chickens from flying away - over fences
What are indicators of skin problems?
- Discoloured comb = pale, purple, black, yellow, white flakes, white spots
What else is seen with skin problems?
- Breast blisters
- Wounds
- Ear infections
- Ringworm
- Bumble foot
- Spurs
- Vent pecking
- Erysipelas
how can you treat external parasites?
- Flurolaner
- Louse powder = louse + mites (if contain permethrin)
- Scaly leg mite = surgical spirit