Clinical signs
- Weakness & lethargy
- Loss of weight
- Loss of appetite
- Digestive symptoms
- Delay in food digestion
- Diarrhoea
- Food regurgitation
- Dark coloured faeces
- Neurological symptoms
- Irregular falcon movements
- Tremor’s and irregular head movements
- Deviation of the head to one side
- The falcon walks in a circular path
- Slouching wings
- Blindness
- Convulsions and muscular twitches
- Leg and / or wing paralysis (severe cases)
Diagnosis and differentials
Treatment and control
- depends upon the severity and position of lead. surgery , stomach lavage
Summary
- Can be acute or chronic. Usually by hunting pallets, or feeding birds or rodents to falcons