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PRACTICAL POULTRY PRODUCTION 



Figure 163. A fowl infected with tuber- 

 culosis. (Courtesy of Dr. W. W. Dimock» 

 Ames, Iowa.) 



Treatment. There is really 

 no satisfactory treatment 

 for this trouble. When the 

 disease is discovered in a 

 wide-spread form, that is, 

 throughout most of the 

 birds, they should be im- 

 mediately killed and burned 

 or buried, and the house and 

 yards thoroughly cleaned 

 and disinfected. As an ex- 

 tra precaution all tke litter 

 and droppings from the 

 house shsuld Ukewise be burned. Under ordinary circum- 

 stances it is not advisable to retain any of the fowls that 

 have been exposed to this infection, as it is highly probable 

 that sooner or later the disease will manifest itself in them. 



Limbemeck. This dis- 

 ease, so-called, is really a 

 condition or sjonptom of 

 several diseases. 



Symptoms. It is char- 

 acterized by the fact that 

 the fowl's neck becomes 

 paralyzed and limber so 

 that the head can not be 

 held erect and is twisted 

 to one side. The cause is 

 usually a form of food 

 poisoning as the result of 

 the bird's feeding on de- 

 composed animal flesh. 



Ti,„n4r„«r,t T-arr^ +00 Figure 164, — Liver and intestines of a tuber- 



treaimeni. IWO tea- cular fowl shdwing tubercles in wall of intes- 



c!r<r<r\nfiilo c\( noc+ni- nil iri-ir *'"*^ ''■"' tubercular lesions on the liver. 



SpOOniUlS 01 castor Oll glV- (Courtesy of Dr. W. W. Dimook, Ames, la.) 



