150 Diseases of Pheasants. 



the Field (July 10th, 1910), which can be washed and kept 

 clean, and not to scatter the food broadcast on the ground. 



The contaminated ground from which the birds have been 

 removed should receive a thick dressing of lime and, where 

 possible, the land should be afterwards ploughed up and a 

 crop taken off it before being used again as a rearing field. 

 The coops should be well washed with boiling water and 

 carboHc soap, disinfected with strong lysol and fumigated 

 before being used again. 



Dr.Morse, in the Farmers' Bulletin of the U.S.A. Department, 

 suggests commencing the treatment by giving Epsom salts 

 in a mash, his estimate being one teaspoonful of salts for eight 

 to fifteen chickens, according to age and size ; but experience 

 has shown the administration of salts to be unnecessary unless 

 symptoms of constipation appear. 



Worms. 



Pheasants, like other birds, also suffer from enteritis caused 

 by other parasites, round worms and tapeworms, in their 

 intestinal tract. Of these, the former are the most common, 

 and most harmful in their effects. Both Friedberger and 

 Megnin have drawn attention to a verminous form of enteritis 

 set up by tapeworms in pheasants, which may prevail in an 

 epizootic form, especially amongst young birds. The treatment 

 recommended is kamala mixed into a paste with hard boiled 

 eggs and bread, which should be given concurrently with ants' 

 eggs. Ziirn advises freshly-powdered areca nut in doses of 

 two to three grammes and pumpkin seeds. (Neumann.) 



But the most common form of enteritis caused by intestinal 

 worms is that set up by small nematode or round worms 

 which are found in the intestinal tract, chiefly in the caeca. 

 These worms may be so small as to require a microscope 

 to find them, but are generally easily visible to the naked eye. 

 Those most commonly seen are two of the species Heterakis, 

 H. papulosa and H. vesicularis. When they are present the 

 lining membrane of the caeca is found to be intensely inflamed. 



