cocci vs blackhead

[De Wet]

Can someone please help what is the differents in the symptoms of this illness...

 

[aoxa]

Can someone please help what is the differents in the symptoms of this illness...

Blackhead is a turkey disease.


Cocci:

Symptoms:
- Passing blood in their poo.
- Drop in egg production.
- Droopy, hunched, withdrawn chickens with ruffled feathers.
- Not feeding or drinking.

Causes of infection:
- Coccidiosis is caused by a parasite (coccidia) found in contaminated ground and damp bedding. It can be transferred on contaminated boots, clothing, feedsacks, insects and rodents.
- Poultry are exposed to the parasite via their droppings, dirty drinkers and damp litter in their housing. Wet areas around drinkers are particular areas of infection.
- Coccidia can also be found in water that is not kept clean and free of chicken droppings.
- Young birds and chicks (of all kinds) are most prone to infection and will quickly die if not treated.
- Overcrowding and intensive rearing of chickens leads to infection passing quickly throughout the flock.
- Infectious parasites can live in housing that was previously contaminated for a number of months and so will infect new birds when they are introduced.

Blackhead:

Turkey poults are tricky to raise, as a rule. Diseases make that job even more difficult. Blackhead is a disease that can wipe out 80- to 100-percent of a flock of young turkeys within days. Sometimes, but not always, characterized by the darkening of the poult's head, the disease is caused by a microscopic parasite called Histomonas carried by hair-like Heterakis gallinarum worms. Chickens are the most common carriers of the worm, which lives in the large intestine. However, chickens are less often sickened by blackhead, perhaps suffering a 10-percent or smaller loss in a flock. The worm's infested eggs, passed in a chicken's feces, are ingested by young turkey poults hunting and pecking for food on soil that has been contaminated by those feces. Blackhead can cause such severe losses in turkey operations that it is recommended they not even be raised on the same farm as chickens. Even if the chickens and turkeys are not raised together, infected soil can be carried from one flock to another on a worker's shoes.

 

[De Wet]

thanks for the feedback

 

[Happy Chooks]

With blackhead in turkeys, they also have sulfur yellow colored droppings. It's a sign of the liver damage.

 

[De Wet]

With blackhead in turkeys, they also have sulfur yellow colored droppings. It's a sign of the liver damage.

I also learn fowl chlera also have yellow colored droppings?