64 POULTRY DISEASES 



pile or into an unoccupied field cannot be too severely con- 

 demned. 



Among many people there is a belief that if the body of 

 a person that has died is not properly buried, the spirit of 

 the departed will haunt its living relatives and if they do 

 not heed its warnings, bring great disaster to them. If 

 poultrymen entertained a similar l)elief regarding the dis- 

 posal of dead birds it would save them much loss from dis- 

 ease and parasites among their flocks. The carcass of a 

 bircl that has died of an infectious disease or of a parasitism 

 may be the means of infecting grounds and spreading dis- 

 ease among the flock many months later, or portions of it 

 may be carried to neighboring farms with disastrous results 

 to neighboring flocks. 



The carcasses of birds found dead in a flock should be 

 burned whether or not they have died of contagious disease, 

 for even if they have died of some cause other than disease 

 the chances are that they harbor intestinal parasites which 

 are capable of being spread from the carcass to live birds. 

 AMiere time cannot be taken to properly burn the dead birds 

 they should be buried and buried deeply, so that they cannot 

 be dug up by dogs, skunks or foxes, and so that worms may 

 not carry infection from the carcass to the surface of the 

 ground. 



