VMD 513: Pet animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

VIRAL INFECTION OF THE AVIAN INTEGUMENT

• Many viral condition affect the avian integument, namely the various pox viruses, papillomas
• Psittacine beak and feather dystrophy: may occur as an acute overwhelming disease, wit bilaterally symmetrical loss of all actively growing feathers over a days, followed by death or partial or complete recovery or it may occur as a chronic progressive disease.
• The chronic disease is characterized by repeated replacement.
• The clinical abnormalities of the avian integument are due to a combination of dystrophy and hyperplasia in the in The epidermis of the feathers, beaks and claws during the growing phase.

Treatment

• No reliable cure for affected birds.
• Although the following treatments have been tired
  • prolonged systemic courses of antibiotics (tetracyclines, amoxicillin, tylosin, lincomycin)
  • topical antifungal application)
  • hormonal therapy with carticosteriods
  • topical application of insecticides
  • nutritional supplementation
  • elimination of oily seed from the diet