DISEASES AND PESTS OF FOWLS 



from drafts and in a warm place; dose 

 with Epsom salts (see page 9) and give 

 soft food, e. g., bread, bran, and middlings, 

 with milk. Wine of ipecacuanha has been 

 recommended for cases in which breathing 

 is very difficult owing to excessive inflam- 

 mation. 



BROODER PNEUMONIA 

 A 'very serious disease, causing the death of many chickens 



Symptoms. Chickens affected stand by 

 themselves with roughened plumage. 

 There is a whitish diarrhea, and this disease 

 can easily be mistaken for white diarrhea. 

 (See page 92.) Post-mortem examination 

 will show yellowish spots on the lungs, on 

 the walls of the air sacs, and on the liver and 

 other organs, due to infection by the asper- 

 gillus fungus. (See page 29.) 



Cause. Infection by a species of the as- 

 pergillus fungus, the spores of which are 

 probably inhaled. This fungus is common. 

 The spores may be in the straw used for 

 nests or for litter, or in the food, especially 

 if it is at all moldy. 



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