Background: Several injectable anaesthetics and sedatives are used in various avian species for general anaesthesia. Birds are very sensitive animals and any mismanagement in a crisis can lead to immediate shock and death. Therefore, careful selection of the safest possible anaesthetic agent and dose is very important. Aims: The aim of this study was to examine...

Abstract The bacterium Avibacterium paragallinarum , previously known as Haemophilus is responsible for causing infectious coryza (IC) in chickens and other avian species. In this case report, an outbreak of occurred the Qinling area China, resulting clinical symptoms facial swelling several bird species, including Golden pheasant, Temminck's tragopan, Peafowls, three pheasants died due to prol...

We describe a statistically significant correlation between two well-characterized responses to dioxin-like compounds in birds; induction of 7-ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity in cultured hepatocytes, and embryo mortality. Data were obtained from a review of the literature. EROD EC50 values for 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and 6 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were st...