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

REPRODUCTIVE DISEASES

• Diseases of reproductive tract may be originate form reproductive tract it self or secondary to disease of some other organ.
• The diagnosis of the reproductive tract disease by history, clinical sign, palpation, radiography.
• Abdominal enlargement: may be due to large gonadal tumour, oviduct impaction
• Cessation of egg laying may be due to regression of ovary due to onset of broodiness, failure of infundibulum to engulf oocyte, obstruction of oviduct
• Discharge from the oviduct may be due to salpingitis or vent gleet
• Loss of libido can be due to or associated wit degenerative changes or diseases of testes
• Prolapse of the cloaca or oviduct may be due to straining to pass a retained egg
• Sex change may occur due to steroid producing tumour
• Vent gleet (cloacitis) is a chronic foul smelling sticky discharge from the vent that soil the ventral feather.