Synonyms: Cattle plague, Bovine typhus, Bulkandi It is an acute highly contagious viral disease of ruminants and pig. Crossbred and young cattle are more susceptible to this virus. Etiology: It is caused by paramyxovirus. Transmission: 1. It spreads primarily through inhalation.2. It also…
Foot and mouth disease is a highly communicable disease affecting cloven footed animals and is characterized by fever, formation of vesicles and blisters in the mouth, udders, and teats and on the skin between the toes and above the hooves.…
The first named condition affects adult sheep and the second young lambs, both being caused by Clostridium welchii, Type D. Both diseases run an acute course and are highly fatal. The disease commonly occurs in England, Australia, New Zealand and certain parts…
Synonyms: Mastitis, Dagadi Mastitis-denotes an inflanation of the udder, this disease is responsible for heavy financial losses to dairyman due to discarding of abnormal milk, reduced milk production and butter fat, decreased market value of cow and cost of drugs and…
It is a widespread, highly contagious infection of the respiration and nervous systems of nervous system of poultry. Mortality due to the Raniket disease may be as high as 100 per cent in young flock. It may also affect the…
Marek’s disease (MD) till 1963-64 was considered under Avian leucosis complex. As in many other countries, in India also this disease has reached at a dangerous level resulting in yearly loss of over Rs. four crores through mortality. Considering economic…
The disease has been reported in chickens and turkeys. CRD is specific disease caused by one of the group of organisms known is pleuro pneumonia like organism (PPLO), but more closely defined is Mycoplasma; the particular organism directly associated with…
Coccidiosis is a disease caused by the invasion of the digestive tract by microscopic single celled protozoan parasites, called Coccidia. Coccidia are almost ubiquitous parasites and rearing birds away from them is practically impossible. A mild coccidiosis infection, kept under…
Definition: The interval from the first signs of sexual receptivity at Oestrus (heat) to the next estrus is called estrus cycle. The chain of physiological events that begins at one Oestrus period and ends at next is called as Oestrus…
Definition: The process by which sperms are formed within the seminiferous tubules from spermatogonia or sperm mother cells which lie on the basement membrane Spermatogenesis is divided in to two distinct phases : Spermatocytogenesis: A series of divisions during which…
