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Show CAUSE OF WHITE DIARRHEA One Infected Chick May Infect Entire Brood Prevention Is Best Method of Combating. White diarrhea Is caused by the bacillus ba-cillus bacterium pullorum with which chicks are often infected when hatched. hatch-ed. The germs multiply very rapidly rap-idly and one infected chick may Infect the entire brood. Prevention Preven-tion is the best method of combating the disease and should begin as soon as chicks are hatched. Intestinal an- tiseptics should be given to kill the germ. Mercuric chloride is one of the most powerful remedies, but being a rank poison, its use Is not to be recommended recom-mended as long as there are safe, harmless remedies on the market that i will do the work. |