| Show Poultry men axe are warned warmed of unsatisfactory acid hydrochloric acid Is worthless as a cure for range disease and tapeworm according to E L burnett burned of the new york state college of veterinary medicine range disease ile he explains Is a paralysis which occurs among gr growing chickens during the latter part of the range period it invariably affects the legs sometimes the wings and occasionally causes blindness autopsies have shown that a definite nervous disorder causes the paralysis tapeworms Tape worms coccid losis and nutritional disturbances may be responsible to some extent and when they occur along with the nervous disorder they seem to intensify it range disease unaccompanied by parasitic and nutritional disturbances Is not ll 11 i ways serious and untreated flocks may rec recover over without serious loss cod liver oil of good quality fed in sufficient quantities prevents paralysis due to rickets in housed pullets summer sunshine seems sufficient for pullets on the range proper management of the lock flock controls parasitic and nutritional troubles but since nervous disorder Is not yet clearly understood complete recommendation for its control cannot be given |
