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How to detect bird flu in poultry
published: Thursday | June 29, 2006

If your poultry show the following signs, they may have the Avian Influenza (bird flu) virus:

- Lack of coordination (including inability to walk or stand)

- Ruffled feathers

- Difficulty breathing

- Loss of appetite

- Depression and droopiness

- Bluish colouring of wattles and combs

- Edema and swelling of head, eyelids, comb, wattles, hocks

- Watery diarrhoea

- Small haemorrhages (most visible on feet and shanks)

- Signs of blood in nose discharge

- Sudden fall in egg production

- Eggs with soft shells

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