ANTS KILL POULTRY
ALIVE IN FOWLS' CROPS BIRDS BITTEN TO DEATH Mr. W. Armstrong, of Eualdrie, near Weddin Mountain, New South Wales, lately made an amazing discovery when he investigated the cause of heavy mortality among his fowls. He first found that the fowls ale voraciously the swarms of green-head ants that invaded tlio poultry runs after wet weather. He reached the conclusion that those ants had something to do with his poultry mortality. He"made post-mortem examinations of the birds. These revealed that the ants which had been swallowed were still alive in the crops and intestines of the birds, and had apparently bitten the fowls to death.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21878, 14 August 1934, Page 12
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108ANTS KILL POULTRY New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21878, 14 August 1934, Page 12
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