Studies on Naval Infection of Chicks and Poults

By 1947, a very common disease of chicks and poults frequently referred to as 'navel infection' was been" causing increasingly mortality rates of poults with each brooding season. In 1945, a systematic investigation of this disease was began. a disease characterized by failure of the navel to heal was due to several different types of organisms and was largely the result of incubator lack of proper sanitation. The details regarding this study are given. It was concluded that Infection appears to pass from the hen to poults through the egg. An outbreak of navel infection may be due to infection from the hen, m the incubator, in transit or in the brooder house