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Show Coccidiosis Is Very Destructive to Chicks Coccidiosis is a disease of the intestines in-testines and while it affects all birds It is especially destructive to chicks up to two months old. The cause Is a microscopic organism. The transmission transmis-sion of Infection from diseased to healthy birds occurs by contamination contamina-tion of the feed, water anil ground. The coecldia multiply with great rapidity rap-idity In the Intestines and enormous numbers are discharged In the droppings. drop-pings. The most prominent and characteristic character-istic symptoms In nearly all cases are white, diarrheal discharges and the rapid wasting away of the affected birds. Adult birds have considerable resistance to this germ and the disease dis-ease is frequently seen in the chronic form. There is no satisfactory cure for this disease in young chickens. |