Abstract

There are a number of diseases that work great havoc with the amateur poultry keeper in India especially in the villages where the vitality of birds at best is very low due to poor feeding, promiscuous breeding and bad housing conditions. In my experience I have found that chicken pox perhaps takes larger toll than any other poultry disense. Its ravages are not considered so serious as that of fowl pest because it does not do its work as dramatically as the "Angel of death". This, disease, like the poor, is ever with us and many people take it for granted as some do itch and scabies for example, or the proverbial fleas on a dog. But anyone who has made a study of poultry rear- ing in the villages will agree with me that thousands of chicks, especially, ave claimed by this disesse every year. In the early days of our poultry work I considered this one of the major pro- blems we had to solve. As surely as the cooler days of January began to wane and evidences of the hot weather began to appear, chicken pox would be right around the corner to say her "How-do-you-dy". After considerable experiment- ation we have learned to control this disease with considerable success and no longer consider it one of our major problems to deal with.

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