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INDIGESTION 



This is frequently mistaken for cholera 

 and is caused by overfeeding, especially 

 when grain is largely used. The symptoms 

 are the same as for cholera, except the in- 

 tense thirst and the death of the bird in a few 

 hours. The remedy is to give no food what- 

 ever for three days, and also add a teaspoon- 

 ful of tincture of nux vomica to each quart 

 of the drinking water, at the end of three 

 days allowing one ounce of lean meat once a 

 day for a week. Be sure and provide sharp 

 grit. 



CROP BOUND 



Whenever a fowl is crop bound it is due to 

 eating something that will not pass into the 

 gizzard, such as hay, old rope, rags, dried 

 hay or grass, or anything that is liable to be- 

 come packed. The opening from the crop 

 to the gizzard may be clogged with a small 

 piece of hemp or rag, and as no food passes 

 to the gizzard, the fowl is all the time hun- 



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