Maintaining feed intake is especially important to avoid mortality or severely stunted growth when birds are afflicted
with an enteric disorder. One of the first symptoms observed in a flock afflicted with poult enteritis is a distressful
vocalization and impatient pacing behavior along the feeder lines about 24 hours before the diarrhea starts. The poults
seem to be disturbed about the feed, and they will not eat it. A spike in mortality may occur until about 3 days later
when many of the birds begin to consume feed again.