Garfield County News | 1930-05-23 | Page 6 | Prevent Coccidiosis among Little Chicks

prevent among little chicks bloody diarrhea or Is a fatal parasitic disease of poultry its effects become apparent during warm rainy spring weather which ts Is favor table a kle for the development of the parasite egg tn in the soil boll the symptoms are diarrhea and leg weakness chicks from fourno four t six I 1 weeks eel s old are most susceptible ysa losses vary from 25 to per cent t A chronic type of the disease sease may a kippear pear in the late sum mer and fall an ounce of la Is worth many pounds of cure says dr 1 I B boughton chief of health at the university of illinois he has had opportunity to investigate hundreds of outbreaks of tills this disease his recommendations ions call for beik news clean lots each spring with the old ones eeb plowed ind planted to a rop crop c thorough jhb ough of houses house and nai broaders brooders bro b oders at regular intervals Inter vala Is also essary lessary