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["Larry D. Cook" <cookfrenchlick@yahoo.com>]

I didn't know this about Pawpaw
Larry  D. Cook






In captivity, the diet should include nutritious fruits with oil soluble 
vitamins, like the North American paw paw, dried cranberries and pomegranates 
where available. These fruits are invaluable as they contain condensed 
tannins called proanthocyanidins that prevent E. coli bacteria from attaching 
to cells in the digestive tract. Green Junglefowl are particularly vulnerable 
to Marek's disease, mycoplasma, pseudomonas and a host of other ailments that 
attack the digestive tract and