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Show Disease In Crowded Houses Many a laying house will be the scene of a disease outbreak this winter, and yours may be one of them unless- preventative care is taken. If you value the health of your birds, overlook nothing- in your effort to provide them with healthy, comfortable quarters. One of the commonest mistakes is that of crowding more birds into in-to a poultry house than it is meant to accomodate. Overcrowding, Overcrowd-ing, if continued, can cut into your profits by encouraging the spread of disease, the development develop-ment of canibalism, and egg picking. pick-ing. Lagging birds may become even more rundown because they are lost in the rush to the crowded crowd-ed feed troughs. Egg production per hen may drop for the same reason. |