Variation in Fowls

Iritis ( White Eye ) in Fowls

One member of this family developed a spontaneous choroidal detachment about three months after sclero-corneal trephining, and tbI persisted unchanged for a year. It was (unsuccessfully) tven0d by a cautery puncture and is still present. The second family comprises six siblings out of a family of ten, one of whom died in infancy. Of the nine living siblings, eight are said to be glaucomatous, a...

Fibrous Feeds for Functional Fowls

Fibres are not digested by fowls, but their impact on digestive physiology, nutrient metabolism and intestinal microflora can be substantial. Analytical shortcomings have historically contributed to different notions on the significance of fibres, but modern techniques now enable us to better discriminate between various fractions of fibre and relate them with the performance of poultry. The fo...

Vaccinating Fowls for Chicken Pox

Sexing in guinea fowls (Numida meleagris).

Despite the potentials and contributions of guinea fowls to economic and social life in Ghana, accurate sex identification in these birds is still a major problem. Three hundred and sixty guinea fowls (180 birds per sex) were used in determining a more accurate and farmer friendly sexing technique. The sexing methods explored were vent, biometric, and molecular techniques. Vent sexing was accom...

Transmission Experiments with Leucosis of Fowls

It is shown, in a carefully controlled experiment, that fowl leucemia can be readily transmitted from chicken to chicken by injection. Of 25 fowls, 13 were injected intravenously with blood from a chicken (No. 575) with erythroleucosis and 12 with blood from a chicken (No. 689) with myeloid leucosis. The injected birds and an equal number of uninjected controls were kept in tiers of alternating...