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What actions should be taken if you suspect a Notifiable Disease on a poultry farm?
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-Notify DEFRA
-Advise the farmer/Inform of rights -Quarantine farm and contact farms -Wait on farm for DEFRA -Identify recent movements -Brief farm staff |
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Name three notifiable diseases in poultry.
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-Newcastle disease
-Avian Influenza -PMV1 of Pigeons |
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How would you evaluate eggs for signs of disease in a poultry flock?
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Shell: no egg, cuticle, blood faeces, colour quality
Albumen: watery whites Performance: chick quality, pathogens, fertility, hatchability |
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What are the trends in the UK poultry industry?
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-shorter life (more meat tonnage per year but less time to develop immunity and allow for withdrawal periods of drugs)
-less reliance on vaccination -less reliance on medication -increase focus on biosecurity and good management |
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What factors affect biosecurity on a poultry farm?
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-hygiene
-feed -vaccination -pest control -water -people -subcllinical disease -immunosuppression -litter -site security -facility design |
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What actions should be taken if you suspect a Notifiable Disease on a poultry farm?
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-Notify DEFRA
-Advise the farmer/Inform of rights -Quarantine farm and contact farms -Wait on farm for DEFRA -Identify recent movements -Brief farm staff |
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Name three notifiable diseases in poultry.
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-Newcastle disease
-Avian Influenza -PMV1 of Pigeons |
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How would you evaluate eggs for signs of disease in a poultry flock?
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Shell: no egg, cuticle, blood faeces, colour quality
Albumen: watery whites Performance: chick quality, pathogens, fertility, hatchability |
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What are the trends in the UK poultry industry?
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-shorter life (more meat tonnage per year but less time to develop immunity and allow for withdrawal periods of drugs)
-less reliance on vaccination -less reliance on medication -increase focus on biosecurity and good management |
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What factors affect biosecurity on a poultry farm?
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-hygiene
-feed -vaccination -pest control -water -people -subcllinical disease -immunosuppression -litter -site security -facility design -vehicles -poultry source -equipment |
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Name some aggravating factors in relation to disease in a poultry flock.
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Animal:
-poor nutrition, debilitation, poor immunity, other disease Environmental: -stress, overheating, poor ventilation, overstocking, chilling, dust, wet litter |
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Name some mitigating factors in relation to disease in a poultry flock.
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Animal:
-good immunity, nutrition, and condition, minimal disease, use of vaccinations Environment: -reduced stress, good ventilation, clean air, quality litter, understocking, correct temperature |
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Define "egg drop".
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The percentage of birds with 100% drop in egg production.
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Name two diseases that can be vertically transmitted in chickens.
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-Salmonella (transovarially, through deep deposition on albumen at top of oviduct, or via shell contamination
-Mycoplasma (M. gallisepticum, synoviae, meleagrides, iowae) |
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What conditions in poultry can cause high mortality?
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-Highly pathogenic avian influenza
-Newcastle disease -Gumboro disease -monovalent ionophore toxicity -suffocation/heat stress |