REQUISITES FOR HEALTH 



HEALTHY POULTRY* 



HOW TO MAINTAIN HEALTH IN POULTRY- 

 HOW TO PREVENT DISEASE— HELPFUL SUG- 

 GESTIONS ON BREEDING, CHICK GROWING. 

 HOUSES, FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS 



P T. WOOD, M. D. 



T IS more important for the beginner to Imow how to prevent 

 diseases than how to treat and cure them. In most cases 

 where the amateur begins to doctor his flock he is in very- 

 much the same plight as the man who neglected to look his 

 barn door until after his horse was stolen. It is much easier 

 to keep disease out of the flock than it is to get rid of it when 

 sickness once gets a foothold. 



To combat disease successfully one must be familiar with the require- 

 ments of the fowl in its normal condition and a general knowledge of the 

 essentials of anatomy and physiology are desirable. With fowls, as with 

 other live stock, we have almost absolute control over their environment, 

 breeding, food and habits. This control and the fact that we can prompt- 

 ly km any undesirable specimen gives us the power to prevent or effectu- 

 ally stamp out any disease which may make its appearance. In the major- 

 ity of cases disease is preventable and on well regulated poultry farms it 

 will be conspicuous only by its absence. Barring the unforeseen results of 

 sudden climatic changes, accidents and certain insidious contagious dis- 

 orders which occasionally make their appearance on the best regulated 

 plants, disease can, in nearly every case, be prevented by good care and 

 management and the exercise of ordinary common sense. 



Disease is seldom thought of until it makes its appearance and to 

 carelessness, ignorance and lack of forethought in this respect is due to a 

 large extent the prevalence of poultry diseases — the horse is stolen before 

 we remember to lock the door. 



BREED FOR HEALTH 



It is one of the well-known laws of heredity that "like produces like,'' 

 — what is bred in the fowl will out in the chick. The tendencies to certain 

 habits are readily transmitted from parent to offspring and when handed 

 down for a number of generations, the tendency becomes more firmly fixed. 



♦Copyright 1904 by Prince T. Woods. 



