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Skip to main content. Companies House does not verify the accuracy of the information filed link opens a new window. Commercial ducks are very susceptible to toxins. Cases of high mortality due to botulinum toxin, lead, or excess medication with certain antibiotics, especially sulfa-containing antibiotics, are frequently reported.

Aflatoxins, rodenticides and insecticides such as parathion and diazinone are highly toxic to ducks. Excellent disinfection at the level of incubators and hatchers is required as an effective strategy in duck production. Tibial dyschondroplasia and bacterial infections at the level of the hock joint, infectious tenosynovitis and arthritis are the most frequent pathologies of the locomotor system.

It is common that excess weight in certain birds is the most important underlying factor for the appearance of conditions in the legs. Susceptible birds develop symptoms of severe diarrhea, sometimes with blood. Like duck virus hepatitis, the immunization of breeding ducks with an attenuated active vaccine induces adequate passive protection in the offspring.

Eventually, it is also necessary to vaccinate commercial birds. It is a highly contagious viral disease that affects young ducks mainly between 1 and 28 days. The younger the birds are, the more susceptible they are to the disease. It is very rare to occur in birds older than 30 days. Dissemination in the flock is very fast.

Affected birds generally develop spasmodic contractions and die, frequently with the neck and spine dorsally arched backward. The liver is enlarged and frequently bleeds. The virus can be isolated from blood, feces, and intestinal mucosa. Disease prevention is quite successful by vaccinating the breeders with an attenuated active live viral vaccine that induces protective maternal antibodies in the progeny.

Commercial ducks are generally resistant to avian influenza; however, type A H5N1 and H7N1 viruses can cause high mortality in ducks. It is lethal in ducks of all ages and usually causes acute mortality and morbidity in susceptible flocks. The combination of live vaccines and autogenous bacterins in breeders and commercial birds has been one of the most effective strategies to prevent and control this disease.

Septicemic lesions are very similar to what is observed in chickens and are often very important for the quality of baby ducks, causing pericarditis, perihepatitis, aerosacculitis in older ducks and peritonitis in breeding females. The use of Sulfadimethoxine — ormetoprim 0. Diseases as critical in chicken production as coccidiosis and infectious bronchitis are not economically important in the duck industry.

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