DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. 35 



the feathers appear rough; the head, wings, and tail 

 will droop; the discharge from the bowels is first a 

 bluish green color, but later yellow and bloody, which 

 is one diagnostic symptom and one which differs from 

 cholera, which the disease somewhat resembles, but 

 enteritis is confined mostly to a single flock and proves 

 most disastrous to young or half grown birds, while 

 cholera affects old and young, spreads very rapidly and 

 proves fatal in a short time. 



Those cases that are due to poisons or irritants will 

 manifest practically the same symptoms, but as soon as 

 the poison is removed the trouble will spread no fur- 

 ther and will be confined to those only that had access 

 to it. 



Prevention and Treatment: Remove the sick from 

 the flock, deeply bury or burn the dead; the house and 

 runs must be kept scrupulously clean; the floors should 

 occasionally be sprinkled with carbolic acid solution; 

 the yards sprinkled with hme and the house fumigated 

 with sulphur as directed in chapter on disinfecting. 



Food and water should be pure and should be scalded 

 or boiled. Those that require treatment should be put 

 in a comfortable place away from the healthy and 

 should be fed a light diet, such as boiled rice or stale 

 bread soaked in milk; and give a grain each of naphtha- 

 fin and quinine with a few grains of powdered charcoal 

 two or three times a day; or a few grains of bicar- 

 bonate of soda and a grain each of Dover's Powders 

 and salicylate of bismuth three or four times a day. ' 



