Abstract

CASE REPORT ON LAMENESS IN BROILER CHICKEN RESULTING INTO SETTING OF LEGS APART AND ITS TREATMENT

Shahid Prawez*, Manish Kumar, Ramadevi Nimanapalli, Priya Ranjan Kumar

Abstract

The most commonly raised poultry is chicken reared to produce eggs and high quality meat. Poultry especially use for meat production are called Broiler chicken. The multi-factorial lameness is one of the important diseases of broiler chicken leads to mortality and economics loss of poultry Industries. In present case report we found that few numbers of broiler chickens were suffering from lameness and as a treatment all aspect has been followed to ameliorate the disease. Fastest growing leg bone of broiler chickens of different age groups receive lameness followed by setting of legs apart and the condition is called spraddle leg. As the disease is multifactorial, therefore treatment for spraddle legs should covers all etiological aspect viz. use of vitamins, minerals, anti-stress agents, antibiotics and managemental correction. Along with these said treatment, fabricated tapes were applied to keep both the legs (lameness) in actual posture. Keeping the fact in mind that lameness is multifactorial disease thereby treatment should covers all etiological factors and using fabricate tape played a key role to cure the disease.

Keywords: Vitamins, minerals, anti-stress agents, antibiotics, managemental correction.