Fatty liver and kidney syndrome in New Zealand chickens

Authors: Lohr JE
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 23, Issue 8, pp 167-174, Aug 1975
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Avian, Poultry, Production animal
Subject Terms: Fat/lipids, Disease/defect, Liver/hepatic disease, Mortality/morbidity, Pathology, Kidney/renal disease, Urinary system/urology
Article class: Scientific Article

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Abstract: The Fatty Liver and Kidney Syndrome (FLKS), occasionally also referred to as Fatty Liver and Kidney Disease, Pink Disease or Q Disease, is a disease of young chickens characterized by sudden signs of paralysis, rapid death, pale swollen liver and kidneys, and abnormal amounts of fat in the liver, kidney, heart and skeletal muscle (Anon., 1966). In New Zealand a disease of  7- to 21-day-old chickens, in which affected birds showed enlarged livers with subcapsular haemorrhages on the border, enlarged, pale kidneys, and excess pericardial fluid was first mentioned in 1957 (Anon., 1957) and was called Q Disease…

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