. Commercial poultry raising; a thoroughly practical and complete reference work for the amateur, fancier or general farmer, especially adapted to the commercial poultryman. Poultry. 334 COMMERCIAL POULTRY RAISING of this kind we are obliged to deal with facts and not fancies. Chickens are scavengers. Almost all fowls are scavengers to a certain degree. Whether this is the result of intense domestica- tion or a natural impulse, I am not prepared to say, but I do know that fowls will eat dead animal matter at the slightest op- portunity, and, what is more, they eat it with apparent (Co
. Commercial poultry raising; a thoroughly practical and complete reference work for the amateur, fancier or general farmer, especially adapted to the commercial poultryman. Poultry. 334 COMMERCIAL POULTRY RAISING of this kind we are obliged to deal with facts and not fancies. Chickens are scavengers. Almost all fowls are scavengers to a certain degree. Whether this is the result of intense domestica- tion or a natural impulse, I am not prepared to say, but I do know that fowls will eat dead animal matter at the slightest op- portunity, and, what is more, they eat it with apparent (Courtesy Kansas Experiment Station) Fig. 217.—Growing coop for young stock constructed from piano cases covered with tar paper. Note runway in front of right-hand window. In the early stages of decomposition, if the animal matter has not been infected with a malignant disease, little harm will result from eating it, unless eaten in large quantities, which will bring about bowel troubles. But as soon as an advanced state of putrefaction sets in, the carcass fairly swarms with bacteria— microbes of one kind or another, not to mention worms and the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Roberts, Howard Armstrong, 1885-. Philadelphia, D. McKay
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