Veterinaria Digital - 17/02/2013

The best-known avian coronavirus and the most important economically and from a welfare point of view, is avian Infectious bronchitis virus. The primary target organ is the respiratory tract, where initial infection and disease occurs but IBV also...

Veterinaria Digital - 9/02/2013

The use of formaldehide as a salmonellicide in balanced feed is restringed in most countries and allowed in some others. This substance reacts, when arriving in the gizzard, with the hydrochloric acid secreted in the proventriculus and two substances...

Veterinaria Digital - 3/02/2013

Intestinal parasites are insects phylogenically adapted to internal environments and, in consequence, antiparasitics are toxic substances that, moreover than affecting the parasite, also do the same with birds liver, laying and fertility too. This is why...

Veterinaria Digital - 27/01/2013

Joined pathologies of infectious toxic hepatoenteritis, toxic effects of mycotoxins in feed and toxics by Clostridium may seriously damage liver function in 4 weeks aged broilers. The liver has consistence and color alterations and fistulas in...

Veterinaria Digital - 20/01/2013

Tricotecenes are mycotoxins with a common chemical structure that holds the sesquiterpene ring and 4 radicals that change depending on each mycotoxin. The sesquiterpene ring gives the capability to produce chemical burning by contact in...

Veterinaria Digital - 29/12/2012

The infection by A. suis produces the loss of consistence of splenic tissue and as a result of that the breaking, with the consequent intraabdominal haemorrhage, they are one of death reasons, specially during removals and regroupings of piglets when...