20/04/2026
CLASSIFICATION OF POULTRY DISEASES.
There are many types of the diseases of poultry birds. The major types of the diseases of poultry are described below.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
Some diseases spread from affected birds to healthy birds. This types of poultry diseases are known as contagious diseases. Contagious diseases are of 3 types, which are described below.
1) VIRAL DISEASE: This types of diseases caused due to various types of virus. Newcastle, chicken pox, gumboro, mareks, duck plague etc. are viral diseases.
2) BACTERIAL DISEASES: The diseases which are caused by bacteria are known as bacterial diseases. Cholera, pullorum etc. are some bacterial diseases.
3) FUNGUS DISEASES: This types of diseases attack the poultry birds through fungus. Spargilosis, fevus, thrash, micotoxicosis etc. are fungus diseases of poultry.
PARASITIC DISEASES
The organism which live in other animal’s body are known as parasites. This organisms creates some diseases while living in other animal’s body.
This types of diseases is known as parasitic diseases. Micoplasmosis, colibesilosis, steptocackich, coccidiosis, espegilosis, worms, lice etc. are parasitic diseases of poultry.
MALNUTRITIOUS DISEASES
If you don’t feed your birds well balanced and nutritious feed, then they might suffer by malnutritious diseases. Malnutritious diseases are of two types.
1) VITAMIN DEFICIENCY DISEASES: The diseases which caused due to lack of vitamins are called vitamin deficiency diseases.
2) MINERAL DEFICIENCY DISEASES: Some diseases attack the poultry birds due to lack of sufficient amount of various types of minerals. This types of diseases are known as mineral deficiency diseases. Mineral play a vital role in keeping the poultry birds healthy. So they become sick and live unhealthy life due to mineral deficiency diseases.
Also poultry birds also get affected by some challenges like cannibalism, egg bound etc but cannibalism and egg bound are not specifically diseases for poultry birds.
