Show scientist i finds goiter in minnesota chickens two cases of that rarest ot of poultry diseases goiter have recently been diagnosed by dr n H 0 U kernkamp assistant professor of veterinary eter luary medicine university of minnesota both were in white orpington hens thich came from the same farm in ramsey county in one of the specimens the thyroid gland had become so enlarged that it pressed against the trachea and inferior larynx and caused the former to become flattened the heart had bad also become slightly displaced by the growth and the lungs were pressed aga against I 1 n st the walls of the thorax records of the veterinary medicine at university farm show that of 2409 2400 autopsies on poultry sent in from all parts of minnesota for hinves tl ti gatlon gation and study the last six years these two cases were the only ones of goiter observed in birds carpenter a veterinary scientist of california did not find a single case of goiter in 1000 autopsies on chickens |