Methods of distinguishing Duck Plague from Duck Cholera by raising Duck

Sick ducks with duck cholera often shake their heads before death, their mouths and noses are bleeding, their crops are full of fodder, and their hands feel hard, while those with duck plague shed tears, their eyes are bloodshot when they die, the crop is empty and have no food, and their hands feel soft when they touch them.

1. Duck cholera usually occurs sporadically and dies suddenly, especially when female ducks are laying eggs. Duck cholera can be transmitted to chickens and even pigs, while duck plague has a wide epidemic range and a long course of disease. it usually dies 4-6 days after the disease, but it is not transmitted to chickens and pigs.

two。 Open the duck anus, there is congestion, edema or yellow-green pseudomembrane, it can be judged to be duck plague.

3. Sick ducks with duck cholera often shake their heads before death, their mouths and noses are bleeding, their crops are full of fodder, and their hands feel hard, while those with duck plague shed tears, their eyes are bloodshot when they die, the crop is empty and have no food, and their hands feel soft when they touch them.

4. Duck cholera can be treated with sulfonamides or antibiotics with satisfactory results, but not for duck plague.

5. In diseased or dead ducks with duck cholera, there are many needle-sized, uniformly distributed gray-white necrosis on the surface of the liver, while duck plague does not have these symptoms, but there are many bleeding spots on the skin surface of the whole body, especially on the head and neck.

There is no effective drug to treat duck plague, but it is very effective to treat duck cholera. The symptoms of these two diseases are very similar and easy to be confused, so it is necessary to accurately identify them in prevention and treatment in order to reduce undue losses.