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

DISEASES OF THE AVIAN INTEGUMENT

• The avian integuments is a series of highly specialized structures that show extreme variation between species of birds, depending on the interaction of evolutionary processes with the birds habitat and life styles.
• The most important function of the feathers related to thermoregulation, and to the possibility of flight.
• Disease of the avian integument are therefore likely to endanger survival of the individual.