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Show Poultrymen Are Warned of Unsatisfactory Acid Hydrochloric acid is worthless as a cure for range disease, coccidiosls, and tapeworm, according to E. L. Burnett of the New York state college of veterinary vet-erinary medicine. Range disease, he explains, Is a paralysis which occurs among growing chickens during the latter part of the range period. It invariably in-variably affects the legs, sometimes the wings, and occasionally causes blindness. Autopsies have shown that a definite nervous disorder causes the paralysis. Tapeworms, coccidiosls, and nutritional disturbances may be responsible re-sponsible to some extent, and when they occur, along with the nervous disorder, dis-order, they seem to intensify it. Range disease, unaccompanied by parasitic and nutritional disturbances, Is not ul-ways ul-ways serious and untreated flocks may recover without serious loss. Cod liver oil of good quality, fed In sufficient quantities, prevents paralysis due to rickets In housed pullets. Summer Sum-mer sunshine seems sufficient for pullets pul-lets on the range. Proper management of the flock controls parasitic and nutritional nu-tritional troubles; but since nervous disorder Is not yet clearly understood, complete recommendation for its control con-trol cannot be given. |
