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 ate voraciously the swarms of green-head ants that invaded the poultry runs after wet weather. He reached the conclusion that these ants had sdmething 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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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1934, Page 2
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109ANTS KILL POULTRY Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1934, Page 2
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