PHEASANTS IN COVERT AND AVIARY 



by the predominating symptoms ; thus, for instance, wet, 

 dry, and diphtheritic forms of roup, all of which are in 

 reality merely manifestations of identically the same com- 

 plaint ; therefore, any such distinctions are as unnecessary 

 as they are useless. 



This complaint is less liable to attack Pheasants than 

 poultry, and when it does occur, the most economical 

 method of dealing with it is to destroy the affected 

 birds, so as to stamp out the trouble at the outset. It 

 is a disease easy to recognise, being characterised by a 

 watery discharge from the mouth and nostrils which is 

 purely of a catarrhal nature ; this discharge accumulates 

 around the nasal openings, and in the so-called dry form, 

 forms cheesy-like masses at the situation last named. When 

 this trouble makes its appearance in a brood the hen should 

 be examined and destroyed if affected, the birds being placed 

 in an artificial rearer. Thorough disinfection and the change 

 of the coops to fresh ground, along with attention to the 

 general welfare of the birds, are the main principles for the 

 guidance of the Pheasant-rearer. 



Tuberculosis 



Tuberculosis in Pheasants is identically the same as that 

 occurring in the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds, 

 in most of which it is a fairly common malady. It may be 

 defined as a specific infective complaint, communicable from 

 bird to bird by cohabitation, though infection in all proba- 

 bility mostly occurs by the digestive tract — hence the reason 

 why the liver and glands of the mesentery, or bowel sling, 

 are so commonly the seat of the lesions of this trouble. 

 When Pheasants feed off ground that has been previously 



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