Show Diarrhea Dreaded Disease in Chicks Prevention Is Best Control Measure Says Expert White diarrhea or the time bacillus type Isa la Is laa a disease that Is dreaded In the poultry poultry poul pow try business With the baby chick season here it Is a n good idea to look the breed flock over before hatching from them This form of ot diarrhea Is la inherited from the hen When It appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears separate the affected chiLka from rom the flock fiock and feed plenty of ot sour milk as us this Is one of ot the best preventives pre pre- for this disease There are also preparations on the market that will do good but remember that In poultry disease work its it's always better better better bet bet- ter to prevent a disease than cure it advises D. D H. H Hall extension poultry husbandman man at Clemson college Another forum form of diarrhea is caused by allowing the brooder to become too hot thus overheating the baby chicks Diarrhea Is followed h by a pasting up of time tIle vent and the lime baby chicks becoming becom becom- lag ing weak lifeless droopy and finally death occurs Chilling will also cause baby chicks to have lin this ibis trouble If It the brooder stove Is allowed to go go out mid remain out for any length of time tile Ule result Is usually bad cases of diarrhea and heavy henvy losses Overfeeding is the time most frequent cause of diarrhea The baby chicks do not need food until after 50 56 or or 72 hours have passed Tho The first feed should be soft fort and anti easily digested Feed small amounts but feed often It Is always better etter to underfeed rather than overfeed I We can eliminate these troubles which cause a u loss losa of 50 per er cent I of our ba baby y chicks by adhering adhering to the tha the following rules I Breed from fowls free from white diarrhea en Keep brooders at right temperature at nIl mill times Give Gl plenty of buttermilk each day Do not overfeed baby chicks |