Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . Fig. 94.—A good baby chick feed and water and soU the feed. The chicks cannot step Disinfection must be thoroughly done. First remove allfilth, from a small lump of manure behind a nest box to a singlegrain of dirt from the cracks in the walls, floors, or roosts, forfrom these may emerge the parasites or germs to reinfect orreinfest the whole building and start disease again in the flock. 216 POULTRY CULTURE If the dropping boards, roosts, and nests are removable,take them from the building, clean and thoroughly disinfectby saturating with a di


Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . Fig. 94.—A good baby chick feed and water and soU the feed. The chicks cannot step Disinfection must be thoroughly done. First remove allfilth, from a small lump of manure behind a nest box to a singlegrain of dirt from the cracks in the walls, floors, or roosts, forfrom these may emerge the parasites or germs to reinfect orreinfest the whole building and start disease again in the flock. 216 POULTRY CULTURE If the dropping boards, roosts, and nests are removable,take them from the building, clean and thoroughly disinfectby saturating with a disinfectant, as a 5 per cent, solution ofcarbolic acid or 1 per cent, kreso dip, or other equally gooddisinfectant, and return them after they have been thoroughlyscrubbed with the solution. The roosts, dropping boards, and floor must be thoroughlyscraped and thoroughly swept, as well as the walls and


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