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PHEASANTS 



Disease 



Enteritis. 



Froth. 



Gapes. 



Symptoms 



Infectious enteric (some 

 times called Chicken 

 Cholera) is the most 

 dread scourge known on 

 the rearing - field, and 

 must be considered as 

 among the most easily 

 communicated of dis- 

 eases. The symptoms — 

 suddeness of attack, 

 rapid spread from dis- 

 eased to healthy birds, 

 scour among afi'ected 

 birds, and high mortality 

 — are outwardly much 

 like those of Coccidiosis, 

 from which it differs 

 markedly in the fact that 

 birds of a month old and 

 upwards seem most liable 

 to infection. 



Rapid death from congestion 

 and suifocation ; symp- 

 toms very similar to sun- 

 stroke (see Cramp (1)). 



Gaping of mouth, wheezing 

 and coughing to try and 

 dislodge worms in throat ; 

 if persistent, eventual in- 

 flammation closes throat, 

 and bird is suffocated or 

 dies of exhaustion. 



Liver Disease. 

 Roup. 



General appearance of ill- 

 health. 



Watery discharge of offen- 

 sive odour from mouth 

 and nostrils ; in extreme 

 cases cheesy patches 

 form round all orifices of 

 head, in which case death 

 soon results. 



