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Inflammation of gizzard in large broiler birds

Published: November 2, 2022
By: Dr. Sahil Kalia, Ph.D.
We noticed an inflammation of the gizzard in the bigger birds above 3 kg of BW.
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MIGUEL A. CORREA
2 de noviembre de 2022

Good morning. It seems to me that it is an enlargement of the crop, not of the gizzard.

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Musa Ibrahim Waziri
3 de noviembre de 2022

I think is the crop,
not gizzard in this case

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Akintunde Akintoye
11 de noviembre de 2022
it is called Pendulous Crop. this kind of Case do occasionally occur in poultry farm. One out of 5000 bird might have it. the cause is unknown but i want to assume it is a nervous issue i.e issue with Vagus Nerve.
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Sahil Kalia, Ph.D.
14 de noviembre de 2022
Akintunde Akintoye yes we saw this symptoms only in the few chickens beyond 3 Kg of body weight.
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Musa Ibrahim Waziri
16 de noviembre de 2022
Mareks disease virus infection affecting peripheral nerves especially branch of vargus nerve supply to the crop could lead to pendulous crop. Crop impaction due to roughages/undigestable feed is often seen in turkeys causing pendulous crop
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sunil kumar
19 de noviembre de 2022
As per my knowledge in poultry particularly impaction of crop or infection in crop and sometime air sac formation under the skin due to hearted skin. It may also vagus narve paralysis of crop, so many reason it seem like.
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