Symptoms of Vitamin B1 deficiency in Chickens & Turkeys
Rescued Rooster with severe Vitamin B1, Vitamin A and Vitamin G Deficiency (c). 2012. CHOE
A vitamin B1 deficiency in chickens and turkeys have many of the same symptoms. The earliest sign of Vitamin B1 deficiency is a lack of appetite due to an apparent inability to eat or drink or has difficulties trying to eat or drink.. Vitamin B1 deficiency causes birds to lose weight due to a lack of appetite. Symptoms can take as long as 30 days or more if the bird is getting some vitamin B1 but not enough. If the bird has suffered from a Vitamin B1 deficiency they can become paralyzed and unable to walk. Paralysis starts in the legs and eventually spreads to the wings, then the neck and soon the whole body is paralyzed. When the condition is in advanced stages the bird will arch their neck backwards and usually draw their legs up. Some chickens will even turn somersaults due to their neck arching and paralysis as they try to fight it. Once retraction of the neck and legs occur death is not far behind.
“With few exceptions, the diets that have been used in studying vitamin Bi deficiency have not contained adequate quantities of some of the other vitamins, especially vitamin A and that commonly occur with vitamin Bi in natural products. As a matter of fact, the diets that were used in the first studies of vitamin Bi deficiency in the chicken and pigeon were also markedly deficient in vitamin A, Many of the earlier descriptions of the findings after death from what was considered to be vitamin Bi deficiency were for this reason in reality descriptions of the results of a multiple deficiency. For many years it was believed that a deficiency of vitamin Bi caused extensive degeneration of the peripheral nervous system. Engel and Phillips (Î1) have shown, however, that there is no deficiency or nerve degeneration in either the rat or the chick when the vitamin-Bi-deficient diet contains a fully adequate supply of vitamin A and vitamin G. Moreover, there is evidence that the withholding of feed produces in the chicken and other animals many of the changes that are observed when a diet deficient in vitamin Bi is fed”
“With few exceptions, the diets that have been used in studying vitamin Bi deficiency have not contained adequate quantities of some of the other vitamins, especially vitamin A and that commonly occur with vitamin Bi in natural products. As a matter of fact, the diets that were used in the first studies of vitamin Bi deficiency in the chicken and pigeon were also markedly deficient in vitamin A, Many of the earlier descriptions of the findings after death from what was considered to be vitamin Bi deficiency were for this reason in reality descriptions of the results of a multiple deficiency. For many years it was believed that a deficiency of vitamin Bi caused extensive degeneration of the peripheral nervous system. Engel and Phillips (Î1) have shown, however, that there is no deficiency or nerve degeneration in either the rat or the chick when the vitamin-Bi-deficient diet contains a fully adequate supply of vitamin A and vitamin G. Moreover, there is evidence that the withholding of feed produces in the chicken and other animals many of the changes that are observed when a diet deficient in vitamin Bi is fed” (Titus, Harry W. 1942).
“With few exceptions, the diets that have been used in studying vitamin Bi deficiency have not contained adequate quantities of some of the other vitamins, especially vitamin A and that commonly occur with vitamin Bi in natural products. As a matter of fact, the diets that were used in the first studies of vitamin Bi deficiency in the chicken and pigeon were also markedly deficient in vitamin A, Many of the earlier descriptions of the findings after death from what was considered to be vitamin Bi deficiency were for this reason in reality descriptions of the results of a multiple deficiency. For many years it was believed that a deficiency of vitamin Bi caused extensive degeneration of the peripheral nervous system. Engel and Phillips (Î1) have shown, however, that there is no deficiency or nerve degeneration in either the rat or the chick when the vitamin-Bi-deficient diet contains a fully adequate supply of vitamin A and vitamin G. Moreover, there is evidence that the withholding of feed produces in the chicken and other animals many of the changes that are observed when a diet deficient in vitamin Bi is fed” (Titus, Harry W. 1942).
Treatment for Vitamin B1 Deficiency in Chickens & Turkeys
Titus, Harry W. (2018). Yearbook of Agriculture 1942. Naldc.nal.usda.gov. Retrieved 18 June 2018, from https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/IND43893805/PDF
