CAUSE AND CURE OF SICKNESS 



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Hemorrhage of Oviduct I wish a 

 little information in regard to a Leg- 

 horn hen that died yesterday. She 

 apparently choked to death; made a 

 queer noise. We opened her and 

 found at the bottom of her egg bag 

 a large clot of black blood. Can you 

 tell me what it was and if there is any 

 cure for it? 



Answer Your White Leghorn hen 

 had a hemorrhage of the oviduct; this 

 is excited by any of the causes 

 which lead to congestion and inflam- 

 mation and may be counteracted by 

 green feed and the suppression of egg 

 foods, stimulants, red pepper, etc. 

 It sometimes occurs from trying to 

 pass too large an egg. There is no 

 cure that I know of, as death occurs 

 before one finds out what is the mat- 

 ter. 



ness to feed your fowls every time 

 they come near yo,u. It is far kinder 

 to keep them working for it and so 

 keep them healthy. 



Indigestion and Liver Complaint 



My hens are on a strike, and their 

 faces and combs are becoming pale or 

 yellow. What is it? I. S. B. 



Answer You have been over-feed- 

 ing, and now your fowls have indiges- 

 tion. Indigestion in fowls is the 

 cause of many ailments. With your 

 birds it has been brought on by lack 

 of grit, with not sufficient roughness 

 (or filling) and too little exercise. 

 How can indigestion be prevented? 

 By dieting. Feed more bulky foods, 

 such as alfalfa, and less solids. A 

 continued grain diet of wheat, corn, 

 barley, if few in quantities and not 

 varied by bulky foods, vegetables, 

 etc., will bring on indigestion, es- 

 pecially when but little exercise is 

 taken. An insufficiency of clean wa- 

 ter is also conducive to this trouble. 

 Clover, alfalfa, any of the green stuffs 

 or vegetables, usually fed to fowls, 

 are absolutely necessary preserva- 

 tives of health. Now, as to a remedy: 

 Your fowls' indigestion has taken the 

 phase of biliousness. Give each af- 

 fected hen one of Carter's Little Liv- 

 er Pills, and give the whole flock a 

 teaspoonful of baking soda in a quart 

 of water every day for a week. Give 

 no other water. Why do I recom- 

 mend soda? Because it helps to emul- 

 sify the too much fat in the bowels. 

 You might give a teaspoonful of Ep- 

 som salts in the water for a week, to 

 carry off the bile which is overflow- 

 ing into the intestines and being tak- 

 en into the system. It is not kind- 



Inflammation of the Crop I have a 

 Buff Orpington hen that has a dis- 

 ease I have never seen before. Her 

 craw is swollen to several times its 

 normal size and is filled with wind or 

 gas. She eats but not as much as 

 she should and is getting thinner all 

 the time. H. Y. 



Answer Your hen is suffering 

 from inflammation of the crop. This 

 is like a very severe attack of indi- 

 gestion. The causes of this are irre- 

 gular feeding or too much food be- 

 ing taken at one time. Partially de- 

 composed meat, or putrid food of any 

 kind will also cause congestion and 

 fermentation of the contents of the 

 crop. The same disease occurs when 

 birds eat substances containing phos- 

 phorus or arsenic, or rat poison. The 

 feeding of too large a quantity of 

 pepper or stimulating "egg food" in 

 the mash will also cause inflamed 

 crop as well as trouble with the egg 

 function. 



Treatment A clean, dry pen 

 should be provided for the affected 

 bird. Empty the crop of its irritating 

 and decomposing contents by careful 

 pressure and manipulation while the 

 bird is held with its head downward 

 When the crop is freed of its con- 

 tents, give two grains of subnitrate of 

 bismuth and one-half grain of bi- 

 carbonate of soda in a teaspoon of 

 water. The bird should then be kept 

 without food for eighteen hours and 

 then fed sparingly upon easily digest- 

 ed food, such as bread and milk. 

 Half a grain of quinine morning and 

 night for two or three days will 

 complete the cure. 



Influenza I am in trouble with my 

 chickens. Five of them have died 

 since Monday. They open their 

 mouths and gasp for breath and 

 sneeze and their eyes are very wa- 

 tery. I feed wheat, cracked corn, 

 plenty of green stuff and table scraps 

 and. they have a good run. I always 

 wash out their drinking pans and 

 rake out under their roosts at least 

 every other morning. Mrs. J. F. S. 



