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POISONING OF CHICKENS AND DUCKS BY PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS OF HELIOTROPIUM EUROPAEUM
Author(s) -
Pass D. A.,
Hogg G. G.,
Russell R. G.,
Edgar J. A.,
Tence I. M.,
RikardBell L.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1979.tb14711.x
Subject(s) - pyrrolizidine , biology , botany
SUMMARY: The disease produced by feeding chickens and ducks a commercial poultry feed containing heliotrine and lasiocarpine, pyrrolizidine alkaloids of Heliotropium europaeum , is described. Illthrift, ascites and degenerative lesions in the liver were the major findings. Similar lesions occurred in chickens fed a diet containing H. europaeum . The source of the alkaloids in commercial poultry feed was probably the seeds of H. europaeum harvested with wheat.