Show disease easily acquired by the turkeys baby turkeys are as susceptible to disease as are baby chicks and show the same manifestations fe according to dr W B hinshaw associate veterinarian in the college of agriculture at davis says the california pacific rural press although no case has been found where an outbreak had originated from carriers in the turkey breeding flock the chief source of infection in boults says dr hinshaw is is in the hatchery where turkey eggs and chicken eggs are hatched in the same incubator survivors from an acute outbreak apparently have a greater ability to abort the infection than chickens and consequently fewer permanent carriers remain in the flock dr hinshaw feels that in the light of present present knowledge a general testing program for turkeys is not justifiable flocks that have become infected should be tested however if they are to be used for the production of hatching eggs |