The Nature of Helminth Infestations in Chickens in East Tennessee

Abstract

IN THE literature on helminths of chickens there are few records of detailed surveys of all the parasitic fauna of a host in a given area. Exceptions are the papers of Baker (1930), who had initiated a survey of internal parasites in Quebec poultry and reported on nine species; of Adams and Geiser (1933), who reported on the helminths of 24 chickens in Dallas County, Texas; and of Ferry (1934), who reported on the cestodes of 50 chickens in and around Douglas County, Kansas. This is not to say, of course, that some conception of the distribution and incidence of helminths in chickens in the United States, at least, is not available. Wehr (1943) and Price (1943) have given reviews of the helminths parasitizing poultry in this country, and a number of papers, such as those of Beach and Free-born (1936), Bushnell and Twiehaus (1939), and Gifford and Eveleth (1944), .