Poultry Diseases

This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Poultry Diseases provides concise and yet comprehensive coverage of all the important diseases of chickens, turkeys and ducks worldwide.
Specialist contributors from the poultry industry and poultry research outline the main features of the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of each disease, including the signs by which ill-health and sub-optimal production can be recognised, the identification of the causal factors, and methods of limiting their adverse effects. In more general chapters, the principles of disease prevention, practical techniques for field investigation, and issues such as hygiene, vaccination, medication and welfare are discussed, with the emphasis always on disease control and optimizing production.