Show PREVENT SPREAD OF OF DISEASE OF CHICKS The method ot of spread or tran sian ot of white diarrhea Is well known That method Is this Chicks that survive survive sur- sur vive tile the white diarrhea contain the organisms In their bodies and a certain certaIn taIn percentage of the eggs laid by that hen when grown are me Infected b b- b fore hatching Th The chicks conic come out of the shell shen wIth the disease and Jm- Jm mediately show symptoms ms' ms ot of white diarrhea and this spreads through their first four days of life to all alJ theother the theother other chicks in the flock fiock During the first four days of life If one chick com comes s out of the batch infected othe or of that particular bat h will become infected Prevention n con consists In hatching chicks from eggs free from infection It your chicks get the disease treatment treatment treat treat- ment Is useless Attention would be better given to prevention than to treatment Kill noticeably diseased Remove aU all free from ease away from d premises The only satisfactory method ot of determining determining de- de whether a hen Is Infected isby is isby by means of blood test Draw a small vial of at blood from each hen that Is to tobe tobe be bred from The college Is testing free of charge at the present time and will soon have a bulletin available explaining thIs method The proper time to test fOr white dIarrhea Is In the fall after culling Test all hens hEms you propose to keep over for breeding purposes One test may not eliminate all disease e. e Test at least ever every year or every six months until you know they are arc free Do not add to your our flock any bird you do not know to be tree free from this disease All may soon be forced to test as people are going to stop buyIng Indiscriminately Indis- Indis from hatcheries or breeders breeders breed breed- ers whose eggs come from unknown untested stock They will buy from the hatchery that tests the hens that lay the eggs The blood test Is the menus at t all 1 satisfactory f cory for the th elimination of It it V eliminates the hen that lays the eggs that are aie S.- S. S.E. E. E Newsom Pathologist Col Colorado Experiment t Sta- Sta tion |