Rearing of Chickens on a Wire-Netting Floor

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1940/1941

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Ernst, G.

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Towards the end of the year 1936 there was a high mortality among chickens at the School Farm, Peradeniya. Losses from coccidiosis, roundworm infestation, and gapes were mainly responsible for the high death-rate, which in some cases reached 50 percent of the hatch

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Ernst. (1940). Rearing of Chickens on a Wire-Netting Floor. The East African Agricultural Journal, 6(1), 57–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/03670074.1940.11664049