Incidence of Marek's Disease in poultry farms of Hyderabad district

Abstract

Three years data (1999000-2001) on the occurrences of Marek's disease were collected from five taluka of Hyderabad's commercial poultry farms, During the period of study over all affected birds were 0.18%, the over all mortality percentage was 0.14 in all taluka, while 20.68% birds survived on all the commercial poultry farms of five taluka of Hyderabad district. It is concluded that Marek's disease occurred in all poultry birds but their rate increased at early and mid age of rearing. However, disease infection rates increased in all months of the years.