Show sulfas cause egg slump but the american keterina Ve veterinary terina medical association warns p poultry tymen men against reaching for the sulfa bottle battle too frequently in a recent experiment the production of birds given sulfa for periods of from three to six days dropped 50 60 per cent and compared with a control group of it took the sulfa treated hens a month to reach a rate of production equaling that of the untreated hens the association points out however that this argument is not against the use of sulfa drugs when needed but rather a note of warning against their overuse |