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Show Treatment and Symptoms Of Turkey Sinusitus Special precautions in sanitation sanita-tion and better management practices prac-tices will be necessary to eliminate elimina-te a respiratory disease in young turkeys known as sinusitus. No scientific method to eliminate elimina-te the disease has been found as yet. Therefore, good management manage-ment and the use o breeding stock completely free from the disease will have to take the place of specialized treatment. Be careful care-ful about using silver nitrate or argyrol treatment for the infection, infec-tion, which is too deep-seated to be benefited from treatment. This disease, described as being related to infectious sinusitus, was observed in several Utah flocks during the 1943 brooding season. It differed from infectious sinusitus in several ways, however, and was not commonly seen in poults less than eight weeks of age, nor in newly-hatched poults. In practically all cases, the infection in-fection is confined to the sinus below be-low and in front of eye and in the nasal passages. Symptoms usually noted are watery discharges from the eye and nostril, sneezing and gasping. Lesions always extend deeper than the nasal passages and sinuses. si-nuses. The bronchi and lungs are congested, and the lungs may show almost complete solidification solidifica-tion with small, yellowish nodules. The air sacs are thickened, covered cover-ed with fibrin, and may contain flakes of yellowish, cheeselike material, ma-terial, which may also be found in the peritoneal cavity, U13 area surrounding the intestine.'!. The lung, air sac, and peritoneal lesions le-sions are especially obvious in older old-er birds which have this disease. The disease is not highly contagious conta-gious from one flock to another or one group to another, but tends to restrict itself to the flock where it first appears. George Whornham County Agent |