76 MRS. BASLEY'S WESTERN POULTRY BOOK 



after hatching, the digestive juice or whatever it may be called, 

 goes into the crop and gizzard to digest the new food and the yolk 

 of egg is left to either digest very slowly or to not digest at all. 

 In either case it will give diarrhoea and it may end fatally. 



I am often asked what to do for young chickens that have diar- 

 rhoea, and also for those that are "stuck up behind." I know how 

 almost hopeless these cases are, as they usually come from the un- 

 assimilated yolk of egg, but I reply that rice boiled in milk, adding 

 a teaspoonful of ground cinnamon to every pint of milk is about 

 the best remedy for diarrhoea that I have tried, and to pick off 

 with the fingers the dried excrement, slightly greasing the vent 

 with carbolated vaseline is the only way for "stuck up." If the 

 droppings are washed off, it is almost sure to chill the already 

 weakened bowels and result fatally. 



