WITH 4200 HENS 9S 



bunches of lettuce against the walls — anything that will 

 divert them. This is the best treatment we know of. The 

 chaps that have been attacked must be segregated in a 

 box or something of the kind. As long as bloody toes 

 are in evidence they will keep at it. 



White Diarrhoea and Coccidiosis 

 There remain but two well-recognized troubles to be 

 discussed, and, judging by the quantity of matter written 

 concerning them, these two cause by far the greater 

 mortality amongst chicks : White Diarrhoea and Cocci- 

 diosis. The writer has so far been spared experience with 

 either of them, although he has been called on many times 

 for assistance in handling chicks so infected. Whether his 

 having escaped them is due to his method of handling 

 the chicks, either in brooding or in feeding, he is not 

 prepared to say. This work being based entirely on his 

 experience he might very properly avoid the issue, but 

 with the understanding that he is dealing with theories 

 he ventures these opinions, based entirely on obser- 

 vation : 



White diarrhoea is most commonly recognized as 

 "pasted-up-behind," which is self-explanatory. The 

 chicks become droopy and listless, stand around humped 

 up, usually crowding together for warmth, and die off 

 in great numbers. 



Scientists tell us it is a bacterial disease which may be 

 transmitted from generation to generation and from one 

 chick to another. This sounds rather hopeless ; and it 

 may be so. The wonder then is that there are any chick- 

 ens left what with the interchange that is constantly 

 going on, especially with the growth of the commercial 



