54 THE POULTRY DOCTOR. 



Another class of mites, parasitical, are found under 

 scales, on the combs, and on the legs below the 

 feathers. If unmolested, the comb grows thicker at 

 the base, darker, and furrowed. The feathers of the 

 head and neck fall off. The disease is infectious, and 

 when a fowl is attacked, it should be caged apart from 

 the flock. The treatment must be external. The parts 

 may be painted with kerosene or washed with carbolic 

 soap. Another good treatment is to wash the affected 

 parts and then anoint them with sulphur cerate, which 

 may be obtained at any homo30pathic house. Another 

 good ointment, and one that can be home-made, is 

 two parts of sweet oil or lard to one part kerosene. 

 "Scabby or scaly legs" in poultry are due, perhaps 

 entirely, to these parasitical pests, and they may be 

 entirely removed by a little care washing the leg and 

 rubbing it with the kerosene ointment, or a very little 

 pure kerosene. A dozen pellets of Sulphur, in the 

 water-cup of the fowl under treatment, renewed every 

 day, will aid in the cure enabling the fowl to regain 

 a healthy skin and comb much sooner than without it. 

 One ounce oil of cedar mixed with a pint of other 

 oil and put on the neck, back, etc., of chickens is said 

 to clear the lice away. Only a few drops should be 

 used, as grease is repugnant to fowls. 



