VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

SYNGAMUS TRACHEA IN PEAFOWLS

• These gape worms are bright red in colour and found permanently in copulation in the trachea of many wild birds. These worms posses a cup shaped buccal capsule and usually migrate through lungs.
• Invertebrate arthropod such as earth worms, snails, slugs, flies become encysted where it may live for several months (or) even years. There transport hosts render the larvae more infective thus enabling strains from wild birds to pass on to domestic chickens.