Salpingitis / Peritonitis :

   Salpingitis is an inflammation of the oviduct .

• Infection may spread downwards from an infected left abdominal air sac or may proceed from cloaca.

Signs :

• Sporadic loss of lay
• Death
• Damaged vents, leaking urates
• Distended abdomen
• Some birds may ‘lay’ a caseous mass of pus

PM lesions :

• Slight to marked distension of oviduct with exudate
• May form a multi-layered caseous cast in oviduct or be amorphous.
• Peritonitis

• Egg yolk peritonitis :

                         It is the inflammatory response caused by presence of yoik material in the peritoneum from a ruptured egg or a retained egg in the oviduct