DISEASES AND PESTS OF FOWLS 
epidemic form. The latter form may be 
due to various causes, and it will be best, 
perhaps, to deal with diarrhea under the 
tollowing heads: 
1. Mild diarrhea. 
2. Epidemic and severe diarrhea. 
. Dysentery. (See page 52.) 
. Cholera. (See page 39.) 
. White diarrhea of chickens. (See 
page 92.) 
Mild Diarrhea 
nA pw 
Symptoms. Looseness of bowels and 
staining of feathers around the anus with 
excreta. 
Cause. Indigestion ‘caused by food 
which may be too laxative; e. g., excess of 
bran, or, by food which may be partly de- 
composed or may contain an intestinal ir- 
ritant. Cold may also be a cause. 
Treatment. Give Epsom salts, or castor 
oil. (See page 9.) Change diet if food 
is suspected. Often no treatment is neces- 
sary, but it is not wise to neglect cases that 
are apparently mild diarrhea, for fear they 
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