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Pollorum Tested Poultry Flocks, 1966-67, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Pollorum Tested Poultry Flocks, 1966-67, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
PULLORUM disease has been virtually eliminated from breeding and hatchery poultry flocks in Western Australia by the annual blood-testing of all birds and the destruction of reactors.
Pendulous Crop Of Turkeys, M E. Bacon
Pendulous Crop Of Turkeys, M E. Bacon
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
THE condition known as pendulous crop occurs occasionally in a mild form in fowls, but the most commonly reported cases concern the classical symptoms that occur from time to time in turkeys.
The condition is also referred to as baggy crop, dropped crop, hanging crop and sour crop, and causes mortality, poor development and emaciation within turkey flocks in some areas.