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Show Dr. Madsen Warns Against Disease From Crates Dealers in poultry who call at poultry premises to load cockerels or old hens for the market may be responsible for introducing disease if proper precautions are not observed, ob-served, according to Dr. D. E. Mad-sen, Mad-sen, animal pathologist for the Utah experiment station. "Before any hauling crates are placed in a chicken house they should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected. This extra effort is not usually observed by the trucker and it behooves the poultryman to exercise exer-cise authority in this matter if he wishes to protect his poultry investment invest-ment from passible introduction of disease with the disastrous consequences conse-quences which so often follow," Dr. Madsen said. "The filth from dirty crates should not be cleaned on the premis- es since such material may be tracked track-ed into poultry quarters and would be a constant source of danger. A trucker or anyone else coming on poultry premises with soiled crates should be immediately ordered away by the proprietor until a clean crate is presented." Cleaning is probably more important im-portant than disinfection. Disinfection Disin-fection solution applied over a thick layer of filth is of no value. In order ord-er to further protect against disease di-sease introduction by foreign crates it is desirable not to allow crates to be brought into the poultry quarters, but rather leave them outside the door or outside the chicken run. These precautions are especially applicable during the early summer sum-mer when cockerels are being marketed mar-keted and at which time poultry traffic will be particularly heavy. "Advance precautions may save poultry producers heavy financial loss from mortality," Dr. Madsen warned. |