Abstract
During the course of preliminary experiments it was discovered that the amount of blood sugar in the chicken increased during cecal coccidiosis. The following experiments are directed toward the problems involved in carbohydrate metabolism in the chicken, both normal and during the acute stages of a coccidiosis infection in an effort to learn something about the extent, duration and possible causes for the rise in blood sugar. The blood sugar of normal chickens has been studied by a number of investigators. This work has been summarized by Shimer (1937). The average blood sugar found in the chicken by eleven different groups of workers varied from 139.1 milligrams per 100 cubic centimeters of whole blood to 259.4 mgms. The mean value for these averages falls between 170-180 mgms. Shimer's own experiments gave an average figure of 192.25 mgms. when 90 birds were tested.
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