When growing young geese, breeders often encounter such an unpleasant phenomenon as the disease of chicks. It leads to the death of a large number of fragile individuals, who immediately after birth were subjected to any of the diseases. How to recognize the symptoms of common ailments, how to provide timely help pets, and what is the prevention of poultry diseases?
It is the little goslings that are least able to resist pathogenic bacteria. Their body has not yet had time to get stronger and gain strength, and immunity to the development of possible diseases is very low. The reasons may be a violation of the feeding regimen, conditions of detention - poisoning, overheating, frostbite, injuries.
If you do not help the young in time, then he may die, and the poultry farmer will suffer losses. Poor chicks can really be cured if you distinguish between the symptoms of ailments that have appeared and know how to treat them. Let's look at the most common diseases.
Enteritis
Goslings can suffer from this disease with early age. It is accompanied by a high mortality rate - up to 95% of the livestock can die. Goslings most often fall ill between the ages of 5 and 12 weeks. The virus can adversely affect the normal functioning of the cardiovascular system and intestines. This disease is especially dangerous for the liver of small goslings. Experts call infected hatching eggs and the airborne route as a method of spreading the infection. Infection of healthy chicks occurs from diseased individuals.
The virus is very well preserved in the body of an ill chick. After recovery after 2-4 years, he is still able to be a carrier of the infection. You can recognize the disease by such symptoms - goslings gather in a bunch, freeze, look depressed, lose their appetite, their eyes are closed. Later, bloody diarrhea is added. Recovered babies lag behind in development. Treatment is prescribed by a veterinarian. It is based on antibiotics with a wide spectrum of action. An effective method of treating the disease is a double vaccination of the livestock. For prevention, the poultry population is vaccinated at the age of about 20 - 28 days.
salmonellosis
This dangerous disease of goslings is characterized by rapid development and acute course. Chicks that are 5 to 30 days old can get sick. The source of the virus is called contaminated food, sick birds, rodents. Infection can occur through the air or through gastrointestinal tract. The reasons may be overheating of the chicks, insufficient intake of vitamins by their body, poor living conditions, the presence of a high density between the birds when they are placed.
Symptoms of salmonellosis are easy to recognize - babies become inactive and sleepy, tend to drink plenty of fluids. Sometimes there is a complete 
depletion of the body. Their eyelids stick together and diarrhea appears. Convulsions are added to these troubles. Basically, death occurs on the 2nd - 4th day of the onset of the disease. If after helping the chicks manage to survive, they will be a source of the virus even before 2.5 years. Treatment is carried out with nitrofuran agents. Furazolidone and broad-spectrum antibiotics - biomycin, oxycitracycline, tetracycline - have proven themselves well.
Giving furazolidone to a sick chick is advised at the same time as eating. The dosage is calculated as follows - 5 mg once a day for 7 to 10 days. Sick chicks should be isolated from the rest of the population. The room with all the contents of the inventory must be treated with special disinfectants. Preventive measures include cleanliness and hygiene of the premises where the birds are kept, vaccination of the livestock.
colibacillosis
One more dangerous disease Goslings are considered colibacillosis. The appearance of this disease can be provoked by virus-infected objects and birds. The reasons for the development of the disease, experts call dampness in the house, bad system ventilation, inadequate diet, overheating of young animals, insufficient fluid intake by chicks. You can recognize the disease by the following signs - goslings become sleepy, are depressed. They look weak and tired.
Chicks constantly strive to drink a lot of water. You can also see how they move with great difficulty. They have an increase in body temperature, appetite disappears, bowel movements become green. Sick birds should be immediately isolated from the general herd. Healthy individuals who have been in contact are recommended to give Baytril. It should be offered to chicks at the same time as water. This is The best way prevention of this disease. Experts insist that a sick bird should not be treated, but should be killed immediately. In the room where the individuals affected by the virus were located, it is necessary to carry out disinfection using special means.
Aspergillosis
It is a disease, during the development of which the respiratory organs of the goslings most often suffer. There is a high process of livestock mortality from this disease. The causative agents of the virus are pathogenic fungal spores. They actively reproduce in the presence of the necessary conditions for this. Appear in wet warm straw, grass, hay. After the flooring dries, dust appears on the surface of the feed. It consists of infected particles.
It is her inhalation by chicks that provokes the development of this dangerous disease in them. You can determine the appearance of the disease by such symptoms that occur in chicks - they cease to be active. They turn into lethargic and sleepy, during the inhalation of air they begin to stretch their neck far forward. Patients periodically open their beak, often sneeze. Treatment involves the use highly effective drug nystatin. It is calculated as follows - they take 20 - 30 mg of funds per kilogram of bird weight. It is best to offer the chicks during the normal meal.
To prevent infection of the livestock with this disease, the feed must be given for mycological examination. If it is proved that he caused the spread of the infection, then the food is replaced with another one. Weak and sick geese that could not be cured will have to be disposed of. The room where the herd lives must be treated with an aerosol disinfectant. Preventive measures are called the destruction of the causative agent of the virus by burning the walls of the poultry house and its equipment. blowtorch. The treatment of chicks with iodalluminum aerosol has proven itself well.
Disease prevention
In order to prevent the occurrence of dangerous infections in young animals, it is necessary to carry out mandatory and timely prevention.
It involves providing chicks with high-quality and balanced food from the first days of their birth, creating favorable conditions for keeping, observing sanitary and hygienic standards, living separately from adult birds, making sure that the house has optimal temperature and humidity. Thus, the risk of diseases can be significantly reduced. The best factor among the above experts consider the creation right conditions geese living. Medicine is developing rapidly, offering a wide range of vaccines for prevention.
Every year there are new drugs that will help you protect your pets from getting into their bodies of various kinds of pathogenic bacteria. One of the important 
aspects in this issue also called the provision of a young growing body of chicks necessary quantity vitamins. Without them, the full growth and development of babies, the presence of strong immunity to diseases is impossible. Chicks are able to receive vitamins if they include grains, root crops, and herbs in their daily diet. An additional source of vitamins can be a variety in the nutrition of young animals. An important role in the prevention of diseases is played by mineral supplements - calcium and phosphorus. They are present in sufficient quantities in foods such as fish oil, fish and meat and bone meal.
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Of all poultry, geese are the "champions" in terms of the number of various diseases that affect them. Therefore, those who seriously intend to breed these smart and pretty birds need to know at least the main diseases of geese in order to protect the birds in the herd from death.
All diseases of geese are divided into two large groups: infectious and non-infectious. Non-contagious diseases do not have a specific pathogen and are not transmitted to other birds. These include:
- avitaminosis;
- rickets;
- cannibalism;
- diarrhea;
- cloacite;
- blockage of the esophagus;
- stomatitis;
- goiter catarrh;
- poisoning
- yolk peritonitis;
- prolapse of the oviduct.
Infectious diseases are dangerous because their pathogen, having infected one individual in the herd, is capable of infecting most of the birds in it to death. These are diseases such as:
- worms;
- downy eaters.
Such diseases, although not transmitted infectiously, also quickly affect all birds in the flock.
Non-communicable diseases
These diseases are less dangerous for geese than infectious ones. If geese are detected in time and properly treated, death in such diseases is rare - mostly weak, exhausted birds die.
The main causes of non-contagious diseases of geese are malnutrition and errors in bird care.
Avitaminosis . Most often, the disease manifests itself at the end of winter and in early spring. The cause of this disease is a lack of vitamins in the body of birds. With beriberi, young goslings grow poorly and hardly gain weight. In adult geese, egg production decreases and the quality of laid eggs deteriorates: among them there are many unfertilized ones; in fertilized - embryos during incubation often freeze in the egg, unable to peck the shell; hatched goslings hatch with crooked legs.
For weakened geese, prolonged vitamin deficiency can be fatal. This disease is difficult to diagnose, since its main symptoms are also characteristic of other diseases. You can get rid of this disease by balancing the diet of birds, introducing vitamin supplements into it, enriching it with fish oil, herbal meal or green grass.
Rickets develops with an acute deficiency in the goose body of vitamin D. As a result of the disease, growth inhibition occurs, the bones and beak become soft to the touch, in eggs laid by sick birds, the shell does not harden, but remains soft.
The addition of fish oil to the diet of birds, especially when growing young animals, as well as yeast, mineral supplements with a high content of vitamin D, helps to cope with the disease. hard frost is a good prevention of rickets in geese.
Cannibalism - a rather rare disease of geese of a mental nature. Provokes its appearance deficiency in the goose body required set proteins, and the immediate cause of development is the improper maintenance of the goose herd (cramped room, high humidity, too bright light, etc.).
Sick birds constantly clean and grease their feathers, so they look disheveled and untidy. Due to excess fat, feathers become brittle and fall out, therefore features birds suffering from cannibalism - naked, in bloody ulcers, backs.
The best prevention of bird cannibalism is a spacious, well-ventilated house, as well as daily walks on fresh air and weekly bathing. If a diseased bird is found in the herd, it must be immediately isolated from the rest - sick geese behave very aggressively.
Diarrhea in geese provokes a lack of vitamin B in the body. Diarrhea is easy to recognize: the litter of geese becomes liquid and almost continuous, the feathers of sick birds are ruffled, their appearance is untidy, the neck twitches involuntarily. For goose young, this disease is dangerous due to growth retardation, and in severe cases, complete paralysis.
Wheat bran and vitamin supplements with a high content of vitamin B will help to quickly defeat diarrhea. To prevent diarrhea, sprouted grains must be added to the diet - its green shoots are a real pantry of this important vitamin for geese.
cloacite or inflammation of the mucous membrane of the cloaca indicates a lack in the body of birds of a large group of vitamins (A, D, E) and minerals. In sick birds, it swells, "blown out" anus, often small sores or cracks appear on it.
For the prevention and treatment of cloacitis use bone meal, carrots and green grass, as well as complex fortified supplements. To avoid accumulations of pus and fecal residues on the mucous membrane of the cloaca, it is necessary to provide the geese with the opportunity to splash freely in a clean water, preferably with running water. Sick birds need additional care: first, the cloacal mucosa must be cleaned of pus and feces, then the cleaned wounds are treated with iodine solution and lubricated with zinc ointment.
Blockage of the esophagus more typical for young people. In sick geese, the beak is constantly open, they are excited, breathe heavily and stagger when walking. The main cause of this disease is the feeding of small goslings exclusively with dry food and the lack of clean drinking water. It is characterized by high mortality among diseased birds.
To save sick geese, 2-3 tablespoons of sunflower oil are forcibly poured into their mouths, which after 1.5-2 minutes must be gently squeezed out by hand. But such a procedure requires certain skills so as not to damage the bird's esophagus. Therefore, it is easier and safer to prevent the appearance of this disease: dry food must be alternated with wet food and provided to birds in the right amount clean drinking water.
contagious diseases
First of all, they are dangerous due to the massive defeat of livestock and high mortality among sick birds - in some infectious diseases it can reach up to 100%.
Contagious diseases are very difficult to treat, so the best way to deal with them is to prevent them from appearing in your goose herd.
Paratyphoid (salmonellosis) - an infection caused by salmonella. Incubation period up to 72 hours. It can be transmitted both through the air and through the feces of infected birds. Mostly young animals are affected, although cases of paratyphoid and adult geese are not uncommon.
There are 3 forms of paratyphoid: acute, subacute and chronic. The form of the disease depends on the age of the geese: goslings up to 20 days always have an acute form, young animals have a subacute form, and those who have crossed a 3-month milestone have a chronic form.
The acute form of paratyphoid is characterized by: poor appetite, diarrhea, purulent conjunctivitis, goslings become lethargic, they can sit motionless for hours with their eyes closed. Developing in the body, salmonella affects the nervous system, so often small goslings have seizures - they fall on their backs, jerk their heads convulsively, wave their paws in the air, unable to roll over on their side on their own. Mortality from paratyphoid among small goslings reaches 70%.
For the subacute form of paratyphoid, in addition to poor appetite, purulent conjunctivitis and diarrhea, rhinitis and inflamed joints are characteristic. Adult geese tolerate paratyphoid relatively easily - the disease is signaled by severe diarrhea and poor weight gain, and for growing young animals it is also a lag in growth from healthy peers.
Viral enteritis - an infectious disease that develops in the liver, intestines and stomach. Dangerous primarily for young animals - there are frequent cases when viral enteritis took the lives of all the chicks in the herd. It has many other names that characterize its ruthlessness: goose plague, goose flu, Hold disease .
Sick chicks are cold, they instinctively strive for warmth, so they huddle together, constantly yawn. 5-10 days after infection, most goslings die, and the surviving geese fall to their feet. , stop growing, become lethargic and indifferent to what is happening.
Viral enteritis affects not only small goslings, but also young animals, and even adult geese. Among sick young animals, about a third of the birds die. Adult geese carry this infection without visible symptoms and practically do not die from it. But at the same time, the geese that have suffered the Hold's disease become carriers of this infection for several years, carrying eggs already infected with viral enteritis.
To avoid an outbreak of viral enteritis, goslings under the age of 5 days are vaccinated by subcutaneously injecting the blood of ill but surviving geese. After 2-3 days, the chicks are vaccinated again. A similar scheme is also used to treat already sick chicks.
colibacillosis — one more infection, very dangerous for goslings in the first days of life. It provokes the appearance of E. coli, which enters the intestines of the bird. As a result of its influence, the body is poisoned, the temperature rises in goslings, diarrhea appears, appetite disappears, but thirst is constantly tormented. If the bird walks with foamy greenish feces, then this is a clear sign of infection with colibacillosis.
pasteurellosis A disease caused by the Pasteurella bacterium. Another name for this disease is cholera. It is transmitted through the air and feed, but often the chicks hatched from the eggs of infected geese act as carriers of the infection.
Symptoms of the disease: depression, protruding feathers, the head is almost constantly hidden under the wing, the bird hardly eats, but drinks a lot, wheezing is heard when breathing, foamy mucus flows from the beak. Often this disease is accompanied by severe diarrhea, and traces of blood are visible in goose feces.
Pasteurellosis is seasonal: its peak occurs in the first half of spring or the second half of autumn. Antibiotics and sulfonamides are used to treat it, but more often infected birds are slaughtered to protect healthy geese.
Neisseriasis — infectious disease, transmitted mainly through sexual contact, although males can become infected with it through infected bedding. The causative agents of infection are staphylococci and streptococci. In males, the penis becomes inflamed, it can bend or even fall out of the cloaca. In infected females, the cloacal mucosa becomes red, swollen, and scabbed.
The duration of the infection can vary from one to one and a half months. During this period, infected birds steadily lose weight. If birds sick with neisseria are found in the herd, they should be immediately culled, the house should be disinfected and the litter should be changed, and the remaining birds should be regularly examined for a month and a half.
Aspergillosis - an infectious disease caused by harmful fungal spores. These spores actively develop in warm, fresh straw or haylage. After drying, their surface is often covered with a barely noticeable grayish dust - fungal spores.
These diseases, although not as dangerous as infectious ones, still cause a lot of trouble for both the geese themselves and their owners.
Echinostomatizodes appear in the stomach of geese due to birds eating tadpoles, frogs and other small aquatic animals. When they appear, the geese become lethargic, eat poorly, suffer from diarrhea. When birds are infected with echinostomatizodes, geese are treated with phenosal and bitionol, and after a course of treatment for 3-5 days they are kept separately from the herd.
Sometimes, with a large number of goose herds, forced to live in a small room, down-eaters settle on the skin of birds. When they appear, growth in geese slows down, egg production decreases, and the general well-being of birds worsens. To get rid of downy-eaters, special ointments are rubbed into the skin of the geese, and the poultry house is disinfected.
Prevention of goose diseases
Given the huge number of goose diseases, as well as the fact that many of these diseases have almost identical symptoms and treatment, it is not always possible to recognize the disease even by a specialist veterinarian. It is much easier and cheaper to prevent diseases of geese than to treat them, while losing a significant part of the livestock.
There are 3 fundamental points in the successful keeping of geese: a balanced diet, a sufficient amount pure water and proper management of the herd.
Considering that small goslings are most susceptible to various infections, they must be kept separately from other geese, ideally divided into groups of 5-7 chicks and avoiding contact between chicks from different groups. In this way, not only the risk of infection of the entire livestock is reduced, but the most comfortable conditions for the growth and development of goslings are created.
Particular attention should be paid to the diet. Each age group needs its own diet, so feeding young and adult geese together is best avoided. Be sure to alternate dry and succulent feed in the diet, as well as the use of fortified supplements.
Daily walks and splashing in clean running water is another reliable and affordable way prevention of most diseases.
Geese are more sensitive to conditions than any other bird. The house should be spacious, well ventilated and lit. If you value the health of your feathered pets, they need to change their bedding at least once every 2 days (ideally, every day), and remove food residues, especially juicy ones, immediately after feeding.
You need to clean not only the poultry house, but also the yard where the geese walk most of the day. If possible, then the goose herd should be regularly driven out to pasture - on it the birds instinctively find the grass they need.
The disease begins to disturb the bird almost immediately after the appearance, but visible symptoms may appear after a few days. Therefore, upon noticing the unusual behavior of a bird, it must be immediately isolated from the rest and shown to the veterinarian, even if there are no visible symptoms of the disease.
Subject to the above conditions, breeding geese will become an exciting, not too burdensome and quite profitable business for you.
Goose is a waterfowl species of birds. At home, the bird is bred in order to obtain meat, feathers, fat and liver. Complete diet, optimal conditions maintenance, timely prevention of geese diseases is the key to growing healthy young animals, which ensures high-quality meat of an adult.
Gosling Disease Prevention - Healthy Adult Meat
Non-infectious
Diseases that occur against the background of the individual characteristics of each bird or errors made in the process of breeding and keeping.
The reasons for the appearance are the lack of trace elements and vitamins, low-quality nutrition, poor temperature conditions. These factors contribute to a decrease in the immunity of geese.
infectious
The appearance is associated with the presence of a clear pathogen - microorganisms, bacteria. An outbreak of the disease can kill a large part of the livestock in a matter of days.
Noncommunicable diseases
Avitaminosis
The active manifestation of the disease occurs against the background of a constant lack in the diet of a certain type of vitamins or trace elements.
Symptoms
A sharp decrease in the fertility of females, inhibition of the development of embryos, in daily goslings, limbs are bent, paws are moving apart. With beriberi, slower growth of livestock, poor appetite, lethargy, low egg production of adults, and in rare cases, pale pigmentation of the legs are observed.
Prevention
A variety of diet with fortified nutrition, the addition of fish oil, fresh grass (in winter - grass flour), complementary foods with special additives.
Rickets
The disease develops against the background of vitamin D deficiency due to the keeping of birds in isolated sunlight premises.
Symptoms
Slow growth of young animals, softening of the beak, curvature of the joints. Goslings are weak, unstable on their paws. Goose eggs with a thin shell that is soft to the touch.
The first sign of rickets is slow growth of goslings and instability on the legs.
Treatment
Adding fish oil, yeast, shells, bone meal, concentrated vitamin D to the diet. Full walks in the fresh air, in clear weather.
Diarrhea
The appearance of the disease is characteristic of a gastrointestinal disorder, vitamin B deficiency, poor nutrition of the livestock.
Symptoms
Ruffled feathers, uncharacteristic neck arching, short-term convulsions, paralysis, frequent bowel movements with liquid contents.
Prevention, treatment
A variety of diet grain sprouts, wheat bran, fresh herbs. Addition of concentrated vitamin B to the feed.
cloacite
Pathology of the cloacal mucosa. It occurs due to a lack of vitamins A, D, E, the absence of a mineralized feed base.
To prevent disease, birds should walk in the sun
Symptoms
Bulging or prolapse of the mucous membrane of the cloaca, trauma.
Prevention
Enrichment of feed with vitamins A, D, E, bone meal, complementary foods with carrots, shells, fresh herbs. Constant walks in the sun, swimming.
Treatment
Cleansing of the mucous membrane with a weak iodized solution. Subsequent treatment with antibiotic or zinc ointments.
Cannibalism
The psychological behavior of a bird characterized by an aggressive attack on each other. The emergence is facilitated by too bright lighting of the house, crowding, lack of mineral and vitamin food. The disease affects the development of young animals, the intensive growth of which especially needs protein supplementation.
Symptoms
Pulling out fluff, feathers from young geese, tousled brittle plumage, the bird is constantly cleaned. Some individuals have bare areas of the back, injuries.
By adding protein and vitamins to the diet of geese, problems such as cannibalism can be avoided.
Prevention
Adding the required amount of protein, trace elements and vitamins to the diet. Optimum temperature and spacious conditions of detention.
Treatment
Sufficient provision of birds with the opportunity to swim. Isolation of an injured or pecked individual. Removal of particularly aggressive geese.
In order to prevent cannibalism, it is useful to include bran in the diet of young animals, mineral supplement, as well as dairy products - cottage cheese, whey, milk.
Blockage of the esophagus
The disease is predominantly of the younger generation of birds. It is observed in conditions of constant feeding of geese with dry food with a lack of water, rarely - starvation.
Symptoms
Restless behavior of goslings, weakness, shortness of breath, ajar beak, staggering. From a constant state of suffocation, a fatal outcome is possible.
Prevention
Open access to water, sufficient moisture content of the forage base.
Treatment
Isolate the sick caterpillar, pour 50 grams of sunflower oil into the throat. After a period of time, gently pressing on the esophagus, to achieve the release of the contents to the outside.
Qatar goiter
Disease of adult birds. Development is facilitated by low-quality forage base. Characterized by swelling of the goiter.
Make sure that the food is of high quality, this will help to avoid illness
Symptoms
The goose is passive, ruffled, sitting in one place, a goiter increase is visually noticeable.
Prevention
Replacing feed with better quality.
Treatment
Isolation and drinking of a suffering bird with a 5% solution of hydrochloric acid, frequent goiter massage with light movements.
Enteritis
The defeat of young animals as a consequence of feeding dirty food.
Symptoms
The bird is lethargic, does not eat well, there are signs of an eating disorder, diarrhea.
Prevention
Careful selection of the components of the diet.
Treatment
Adding a light solution of potassium permanganate to the drinker, drinking goslings with hydrochloric acid "Biomycin" 2 ml each.
Stomatitis
A single problem of older individuals. Appears mainly in the off-season when the poultry house is not well lit by the sun, unbalanced nutrition of the livestock, very rarely depends on heredity. It is characterized by a visible prolapse of the tongue between the jaws, often accompanied by inflammation of the oral mucosa. The disease is chronic, slowly developing, difficult to treat.
Symptoms
Reddening of the oral cavity, the presence of tumors on the mucous membrane, excessive mucous and salivation, weight loss, the bird eats little. In geese, egg production is reduced. There is a protrusion of the intestine.
Treatment
At the initial stage of the disease, treatment of the oral cavity with a solution of potassium permanganate, stitching the place of protrusion. As a primary method of struggle - slaughtering a sick bird.
Since birds need additional feeding with age, it is necessary to monitor the sufficient amount of nutrients and minerals in the feed base of the livestock.
Perosis
A rare disease of eversion of the limbs or thickening of the calcaneus. The main affected group is daily goslings. The occurrence is due to a lack of manganese and choline in the goose's diet.
Symptoms
The chicks have difficulty moving, falling on their paws, slow growth.
Prevention and treatment
High-quality, enriched with vitamins and microelements nutrition of laying hens, additional feeding of hatched chicks.
Poisoning
Eating spoiled food, a poisonous plant, or being ingested chemical substances. The disease manifests itself rapidly, there is a high probability of death of the livestock.
Symptoms
Restless behavior of the herd, gag reflexes, frequent liquid droppings, heavy breathing, signs of suffocation are possible.
If the bird is poisoned and no action is taken in time, it may die.
Prevention
Timely removal of feed residues from feeders, inspection of vegetation in pens, limited use of chemical poisons near the poultry house.
Treatment
Introduction to Diet activated carbon, providing plentiful drink with the addition of small doses of vinegar, castor oil, drinking herbal decoctions.
Diseases of the genital organs
Common diseases of the genital organs of geese have a detrimental effect on the reproductive function of young individuals.
Yolk peritonitis
The causes of the disease may be a fright or strike of a bird, excessively “protein” or insufficiently fortified food. Occurs in geese during the laying period due to the ingress of yolk mass into the intestines. Accompanied by inflammation of the peritoneum.
Symptoms
The goose is restless, the abdomen is visually enlarged, the temperature is elevated, the female has a painful reaction to palpation of the peritoneum.
Prevention
The disease can be prevented by keeping the poultry houses clean, the availability of balanced feed, the possibility of spacious conditions for laying hens, and the complete exclusion of contact between the goose and other domestic animals.
Insofar as effective methods treatment has not been developed, the only option is to kill a sick individual.
Prolapse of the oviduct
It is common in cases of geese wearing too large eggs, with signs of inflammation of the cloaca, frequent diarrhea or constipation.
The female must be separated from the herd and taken under close supervision.
Symptoms
Laying anxiety, lethargy, poor appetite, in some cases drowsiness, redness in the cloaca, fever.
Treatment
Isolate the sick female from the herd under constant supervision. The prolapsed organ must be treated with water or weak solution potassium permanganate. Then manually push the oviduct. If the procedure is successful, put a piece of ice inside.
To facilitate the wearing of eggs by a sick bird, help manually with the help of petroleum jelly. Another option for helping a goose with oviposition is to introduce vegetable oil into the cloaca, break it down with your hands and remove the shell.
Infectious diseases
Aspergillosis
The entry of mold spores into the respiratory system. The organic moist environment provokes the growth of the fungus and the subsequent intoxication of the body with toxic substances.
Symptoms
The defeat of fungal spores is accompanied by poor appetite. Rapid weight loss and an increase in water consumption are noted, and liquid diarrhea is often observed in goslings. Pets are lethargic, breathing is heavy, intermittent. Depending on the individual features of each individual, some can get sick and become a carrier, the rest die.
Prevention
Balanced fresh food free from mold or soiling, bedding changed regularly. Treatment of the poultry house with 2% formalin solution or blue vitriol. Drinking goslings with an aqueous 0.2% solution of chloramine for a week.
Treatment of the disease is almost impossible.
Treatment of aspergillosis is almost impossible, but prevention must be done
Salmonellosis (paratyphoid)
Caused by salmonella infection. A special risk group is week-old goslings, because they have weak immunity. Infection is possible through the air, through the mouth and feces through the consumption of contaminated food or water. The incubation period is up to seven days. In the younger generation, the disease proceeds quickly; in adults, the chronic form predominates. When cured, the bird is an active carrier. High probability of death among young animals - up to 70%.
Symptoms
Feathers are lethargic, wings are lowered down, they are rapidly losing weight, their gait is unsteady. They practically do not eat, but they drink a lot of water. The disease is complicated by secondary signs - purulent conjunctivitis and the release of lacrimal fluid. Goslings of the first three months of life may have white bacillary diarrhea with mucus.
Prevention
Hygiene and cleanliness in the poultry house, timely vaccination of geese against salmonellosis, food balanced with vitamins.
Treatment
Complete isolation of sick individuals, calling a veterinarian to diagnose the disease. Disinfection of the premises with 5% chlorine solution or 1% formalin. Drinking with a solution of "Furazolidone" (up to 5 mg 1 time per day with food for each caterpillar), taking antibacterial agents - "Biomycin", "Tetracycline". Effective drinking with "Baytril" - up to 7 days per 1 liter of water 0.5 ml of a 10% solution for goslings, 1 ml of 10% medicine in a liter of water - for adult members of the flock.
Use ill geese for meat after a month from the day the epidemic was eliminated.
colibacillosis
It affects the most susceptible group - young goslings. The main causes of infection are dampness and lack of sufficient ventilation in the room, poor food, and contaminated drinking bowls. The incubation period is from 6 hours to a week. In the acute form of the disease, up to 30% of the livestock die.
Symptoms of colibacillosis - thirst and lethargy of the bird
Symptoms
The chicks have a poor appetite, drink a lot of water, are lethargic, and there is a frequent increase in temperature. Feature diseases - yellow-green foamy feces of goslings. In adult birds, there are complications - peritonitis, inflammation of the oviduct.
Prevention
It is useful to start disease prevention from the first days of the birth of chicks - goslings are fed aqueous solution propionic-acidophilic culture, ratio 1:10. Treatment of the poultry house and feeding the livestock with an aqueous solution of 10% chloride of lime, 5% formalin.
Treatment
Antibacterial therapy - taking "Neomycin" at 50 grams per kilogram of live weight by mixing into the feed, "Biomycin" at 20 grams or "Levomycetin" at 30 grams, drinking with an aqueous solution of "Baytril" (according to the instructions for use, 1 ml of the drug per liter of drinking water). The duration of treatment is determined by the symptoms - from 7 to 10 days.
With the development of the disease - an unequivocal slaughter of the entire livestock and a thorough disinfection of the barn with bleach or formaldehyde.
Pasteurellosis (cholera)
Immature young animals are susceptible to the disease during the off-season. Caused by infection with the bacterium Pasteurella. The source of the pathogen can be rodents, dirty water, food, pets, wild birds. Incubation from two hours to five days. Frequent deaths.
Symptoms
Lack of appetite, protruding feathers, characteristic frequent movements of a caterpillar - hiding its head under the wing or throwing it back, hoarse, intermittent breathing, unquenchable thirst, severe weakness. From the beak secretion of foamy mucus, liquid stools, with blood admixture. Seizures are possible.
Prevention
Total vaccination of young animals. Regular cleaning and sanitizing of poultry houses disinfectants – 20% slaked lime, 0.4% formaldehyde solution.
A week after recovery, you need to re-vaccinate
Treatment
Taking antibiotics and sulfonamides. Re-vaccination of a recovered bird a week after recovery.
Viral enteritis
Extensive damage to the gastrointestinal tract. Goose enteritis is dangerous for a newly hatched brood. Infection is possible from sick birds, dirty water, poor-quality feed, cleaning the poultry house with equipment with the remains of life from other poultry houses. Individuals that have been ill for several years are carriers of the virus, there is a danger of infection at the stage of egg formation. Among small goslings, the consequences of infection are up to 95% of the death of the livestock.
Symptoms
In ill individuals, weakness, depression, poor movements, drowsiness, and yawning are noted. The chicks huddle together, fall to their feet. The immobility is caused by the weakening of the limbs. Rare manifestation of signs of conjunctivitis. The stools are liquid, with blood admixture.
Prevention
Double vaccinations of livestock - in the period from 20 to 28 days of life, 45 days before laying eggs. Maintenance of cleanliness and timely disinfection of poultry premises.
Goslings have drowsiness and yawning - maybe it's a viral enteritis?
Neisseriasis
The causative agents are streptococcal or staph infections. The foci of infection are dirty bedding or contact during mating. The disease is more common in males. The incubation period is up to 45 days, usually at this time the bird is rapidly losing weight.
Symptoms
In ganders, inflammation of the penis is noted, followed by deformation and prolapse from the cloaca. The characteristic signs of the disease in females are hyperemia of the cloaca, swelling, ulcerative formations covered with a crust on the affected areas.
Prevention
The goose is to be culled. Subsequently, the poultry house is thoroughly disinfected along with the equipment used.
Echinostomatidosis
Symptoms
Visible depression of the individual, weakness, reduced food intake, diarrhea.
Prevention and treatment
Isolation of a sick bird, feeding with Fenasal and Bitionol preparations, observation of behavior. After full course treatment in order to prevent isolation to extend for another three days.
Summary
Disease prevention - important aspect in growing healthy young geese. Professional diagnosis by a veterinarian of the disease at the initial stage will minimize economic losses when breeding geese, as well as protect young livestock. Timely prevention adult herd will provide quality production poultry.
Diseases of goslings cause great damage to the economy, and their treatment should be carried out in a timely manner. Otherwise, the young will lag behind in development and growth, or there is a risk of losing livestock altogether. To prevent such consequences, it is necessary to carry out and properly care for goslings.
Causes of diseases
Diseases of goslings and their treatment
Consider some diseases and methods of dealing with them.
Viral enteritis is a disease that is characterized by damage to the intestines, the heart system, and the liver. This disease leads to the death of goslings up to 95% of the total population. They become infected through food, water, air, and the virus is also transmitted from one bird to another.
Disease symptoms and preventive measures
The depressed look of goslings, half-closed eyes, trembling, yawning, lack of appetite indicate malaise. Sick birds cluster and mostly sleep, they develop and experience stunted growth.
To prevent this disease, goslings must be vaccinated both adults (one and a half months before the start of laying eggs) and young animals (up to 28 days old). After a couple of weeks, you need to repeat the procedure.
Cholera or pasteurellosis is distinguished by a high mortality of birds, when, with a particularly acute course of the disease, seemingly healthy goslings suddenly die. The sources of infection are the same as in the above case.
Symptoms of this disease goslings and their treatment
Sluggish state of the bird, secretion of mucus or foam from the nasal openings and beak, temperature up to 43 degrees, diarrhea of gray, yellow or green, thirst and lack of appetite. All this entails the death of the bird. This disease can also take a chronic form, then adult geese begin to limp, and their wings sag.
In order to prevent the development of the disease, it is necessary to vaccinate, and if the goslings are still sick, then you will have to kill those who have symptoms, and the rest are prescribed antibiotics and biomycin for prevention.
Ticks (Persian, chicken);
Bed bugs (mostly bed bugs);
These are far from all the diseases that geese are susceptible to. Many of them lead to 100% death of birds, but it is important to prevent them. Only then will it be possible to save the livestock or completely avoid the disease of goslings, and their treatment will be more effective if the above conditions of keeping and feeding regimen are observed.
Goose diseases are very difficult problem for farmers.
Various diseases have a very bad effect on the number of geese in the herd, and also cause both material and aesthetic harm. All knowledgeable farmers know that it is better to prevent a disease than to calculate losses in consequence.
Geese, in comparison with other poultry, are most susceptible to various diseases.
Virtually all poultry farmers take preventive actions to protect against disease.
In this topic, we will touch on many diseases of geese, describe them, talk about treatment and preventive measures. The main thing is to love your pet birds, to know everything about your pets.
Viral diseases are very dangerous for geese. Birds are very badly affected low temperature in the poultry house and draft. That in the end, colds and inflammations are detected in geese.
Also, poor and untimely feeding, dirty water, dampness in the poultry house where they are kept, the presence of birds of all ages in one poultry house, and many other factors are bad for poultry.
In order to avoid diseases, it is necessary to feed geese with good nutrition, which contains vitamins and trace elements necessary for their body.
Bird feeders should not be allowed to form harmful impurities or sour food, as diseases of the gastrointestinal tract can occur.
In the poultry house should always work properly ventilation system to avoid either overheating or cooling the room.
Poor nutrition and poor quality feed has an impact on poultry productivity.
Every day you need to let the geese outside. Their body is very well influenced by the sun's rays.
Of great importance is the separate maintenance of different ages of birds. This factor is one of the preventive measures for geese.
Non-communicable diseases
Avitaminosis. The disease manifests itself with a lack of vitamins.
Symptoms of the disease are the fecundity of geese, short stature, the death of young birds is possible, lack of appetite, and decreased egg production.
Treatment and preventive measures of the disease are as follows: you need to buy good and vitamin-rich food, add fresh herbs, fish oil, grass meal and more to your diet.
Rickets. The disease occurs with a low intake of vitamin D, as well as with a small amount of sunlight on the birds.
Symptoms of the disease: poor growth, weakness, softening of the bones, thin shells in eggs, softening of the beak.
As a treatment and prevention of the disease, it is necessary to add fish oil, yeast, a preparation containing vitamin D to the diet of birds, and let the geese go outside in sunny weather.
Diarrhea. The cause of the disease is a lack of vitamin B.
Symptoms of the disease are: neck cramp, paralysis, stunting, ruffled feathers.
For the treatment and prevention of the disease, it is necessary to add vitamin B, sprouted grains, fresh herbs, wheat bran and other nutrients to the diet of geese.
Cloacitis or another name for inflammation of the mucous membrane of the cloaca. The cause of the disease is a lack of vitamins A, D, E and minerals.
Symptoms of the disease are: protrusion of the mucous membrane of the cloaca, on which cracks and ulcers may appear.
For the treatment and prevention of the disease, it is necessary to increase the daily intake of vitamins, add carrots, fresh herbs, and bone meal to the diet. Release geese outside, as well as provide the opportunity for water bathing.
For treatment, it is necessary to clean the mucous membrane of the cloaca from pus, films with an iodine solution, and then lubricate with zinc ointment. Perhaps even use an ointment containing antibiotics: streptomycin and penicillin.
Cannibalism. The reason for this disease is bright lighting, high density among geese, lack of protein in the body of birds, minerals and vitamins, high or low humidity in the room, insufficient ventilation.
Symptoms of the disease are: disheveled feathers, which the bird begins to clean, grease, after which the feathers break, and the back is exposed and blood appears.
For the treatment and prevention of the disease, it is necessary to provide the birds with a sufficient dose of protein, vitamins and minerals, and give the birds fresh greens.
Blockage of the esophagus. Most of all, this disease is observed in young geese. The reason is the feeding of birds with dry food, the complete absence of wet food in the diet, low water intake, and sometimes even starvation.
Symptoms of the disease are: birds behave restlessly, shortness of breath appears, a constantly open mouth, weakness and unsteadiness in gait. Sometimes geese die from suffocation.
For the treatment and prevention of the disease, it is necessary to add wet food to the daily diet, provide the bird with water.
You can not feed the geese dry food all the time. To prevent the bird from dying, they are injected into the esophagus about 50 grams vegetable oil, after which the contents of the esophagus are gently squeezed out through the mouth.
Stomatitis or "falling tongue". Geese that have a subcutaneous fold are most susceptible. The disease is not widespread.
The disease manifests itself most of all in birds kept on household plots, where in the nutrition of geese vitamins and trace elements. The peak of the disease occurs either in spring or autumn.
Symptoms of the disease are: inflammation of the mucous membrane, prolapse of the tongue in a place between the jaws, the formation of a diverticulum. The disease develops for a very long time and is chronic.
First, there is a slight redness in the oral cavity, a slight swelling and soreness, the appearance of more saliva and mucus. Poor feed intake and bird weight loss, decreased egg production.
For the prevention and treatment of the disease, it is necessary to monitor the correct and timely nutrition of geese. It is necessary to provide the geese with enough vitamins and minerals.
In case of illness, it is necessary to treat the oral cavity of geese with a solution of potassium permanganate. But it also happens that poultry farmers cut down livestock.
Qatar goiter. The disease is most common in older geese. It occurs due to feeding geese with spoiled food.
Symptoms of the disease are: swelling of the goiter, geese sitting ruffled.
Treatment and prevention of the disease is in massaging the goiter, it is necessary to give the birds a five percent solution of hydrochloric acid to drink. Do not feed geese spoiled food.
Enteritis. Most often, the disease manifests itself in young geese. Appears with poor food and dirty water.
Symptoms of the disease: inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract.
During treatment, it is necessary to give goslings water with hydrochloric acid biomycin, as well as a solution of potassium permanganate.
In prevention, it is necessary to monitor the nutrition of birds.
Diseases of the genital organs
Yolk peritonitis. The disease occurs only in females. The causes of the disease can be rough handling, fear, the content of a large amount of protein in food.
Symptoms of the disease are: inflammation of the peritoneum and intestinal loops. The disease is very difficult to treat, and sometimes not cured at all due to poor knowledge of the disease. Treatment methods have not been developed.
Prevention of the disease consists in the processing and cleaning of the premises, in proper nutrition geese, compliance with the density of geese in a certain area.
Prolapse of the oviduct. The disease occurs as a result of the laying of large eggs, or eggs in which two yolks are formed.
Symptoms of the disease are inflammation of the oviduct, diarrhea or constipation.
Treatment of the disease is to wash the oviduct cold water, then in a solution of alum or potassium permanganate, and then, with special care, straighten into the cloaca.
Then you need to put a small piece of ice there. Sometimes the female cannot lay an egg for several days; for this, you need to carefully remove the egg with your hands smeared with petroleum jelly.
Or, first, introduce oil into the oviduct, then gently destroy the egg shell and remove everything completely from the oviduct.
Infectious diseases
Aspergillosis. The cause of the disease is the inhalation of a mold fungus. This fungus is found in the soil, manure, dirty input, in the litter.
Symptoms of the disease: the fungus, once in the respiratory tract, it begins to grow. As it grows, it begins to secrete toxic substances that poison the body. Sometimes the disease develops chronically, and sometimes it manifests itself very quickly.
Geese lose weight with poor appetite, become lethargic, bad breath, thirst. Sometimes young geese get sick and become carriers of the fungus. It happens that geese die very quickly.
Treatment of geese is very difficult, and sometimes not possible.
Prevention of the disease consists in the use of feed without mold, the use of rotten bedding. Ventilate the room, prevent excessive humidity, clean the room, prevent geese from clustering.
Disinfection against mold formation can be carried out with solutions of formalin and copper sulfate. Sometimes a solution of chloramine can be added to the drinking water of birds for ten days.
salmonellosis or paratyphoid. The disease is highly contagious and is caused by salmonella. This disease appears in very young goslings.
Infection occurs through the air and the gastrointestinal tract. The causes of the disease are beriberi, excessive overheating, poor keeping of birds, high density between birds.
Symptoms of the disease are: lethargy, inactivity, lowered wings, poor appetite, thirst, conjunctivitis, flow of tears. Sometimes there is an exhaustion of an organism and short growth.
In adult birds, the disease is chronic, and in small birds it is very fast and acute. If a bird recovers from a disease, salmonella will still live in its body.
Treatment of the disease consists in the use of furazalidon preparations, as well as antibiotics biomycin, tetracycline, oxycitracycline.
In the prevention of the disease, the following measures are taken in isolating a sick bird, it is also necessary to monitor the cleanliness and hygiene of the premises, and the vaccination of birds.
colibacillosis. The disease is infectious with manifestations of toxicosis. Most often, young birds turn white. The causes of the disease are dampness in the house, poor ventilation, poor nutrition, overheating, low water consumption.
Symptoms of the disease are: fever, thirst, loss of appetite, greenish frothy stools.
Treatment and preventive measures of the disease include the use of furacilin solution. All diseased birds must be killed. The room must be thoroughly disinfected.
pasteurellosis or cholera. The disease is infectious, caused by the bacteria Pasteurella. The causes and causative agents of the disease are sick birds, small rodents, poor living conditions, and unfavorable weather. Young geese are the most affected.
The disease is transmitted by airborne droplets, through food and drinking water. The disease mainly manifests itself in the autumn or spring season.
Symptoms of the disease are: the bird holds its head under the wing, the bird sits ruffled, depression, weakening, poor appetite, thirst, foamy mucus flowing from the beak, wheezing is heard when breathing, diarrhea with blood, fever, convulsions, often the bird dies.
Treat the disease with antibiotics and sulfa drugs.
Birds should be vaccinated as a preventive measure. Clean and disinfect the room.
Echinostomatidosis. The cause of the disease is the occurrence of trematodes and echinostomatodes in the stomach of birds. They occur in the stomach when tadpoles, mollusks and frogs are consumed.
The symptoms of the disease include: poor condition of the geese, diarrhea, weakness, loss of appetite.
Treatment is carried out with phenosal and bitionol.
Prevention of the disease consists in the use of clean reservoirs for birds. After treatment, they are quarantined for about three days.
Symptoms of the disease are: a decrease in egg production and poor development of the bird.
Treatment is disinfestation.
Prevention consists in lubricating the skin of birds with ointments.
Worms. The causes of the disease are unclean water and food.
Symptoms of the disease: a decrease in the immunity of the bird, as well as a sharp weight loss.
The treatment of the disease is very difficult, it is better not to allow it.
Disease prevention includes measures such as cleaning and disinfection of the poultry house.
Bird poisoning
Poultry poisoning is caused by eating poisonous plants, moldy feed, accidental ingestion of poisons and fertilizers.
It can be very rapid or chronic. It happens that a bird dies very quickly from poisoning.
Symptoms are diarrhea, convulsions, vomiting, thirst and restlessness of the bird.
Poisoning happens, arises from insufficiently thorough disinfection. For treatment, vinegar is added to the water and the bird is watered. And wash your eyes with water.
There are food poisonings. With such poisoning, saliva flow, frequent breathing, suffocation and convulsions occur.
You can treat a bird with the help of vegetable decoctions, vegetable oil, vodka, and sometimes it is enough just to pour cold water on the geese.
In prevention, you need to ensure that the bird does not eat beets, potatoes.
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