POULTRY DISEASES AND THEIR REMEDIES 123 



For this purpose Kreso dip No. 1 is very good, but almost any of 

 the germ destroyers on the market will answer. Roup is a germ 

 disease and when you know that, it is easy to find a cure. As a last 

 resort dip the fowl's head in coal oil and give a bromo quinine pill. 

 This will cure when everything else fails, but coal oil is harsh treat- 

 ment and it is better to use milder remedies. 



Fowls that have had roup should never be put in a breeding pen, 

 for the offspring will have a weak spot in the same place. Dispose 

 of them, no matter how much they are worth. 



Canker. Canker is not always caused by colds, neither is it always 

 roup. Sometimes male birds get it by fighting through wire fences, 

 and again I have known it to be caused by dirty, foul feeding grounds. 

 Canker is generally described as a cheesy matter, but it is more in 

 the nature of an ulcerative sore on the inside of the mouth. It 

 affects the mucous membranes of the mouth, eye and throat. The 

 surest and quickest remedy for it is to apply a bit of powdered blue- 

 stone direct to the ulcer. Take a stick and make a little paint brush 

 with a bit of clean cotton, wet the cotton, dip it in the bluestone and 

 swab the sores. Scrape off the old sore and apply again; about twice 

 will cure it. 



Diphtheretic Roup. A great many people seem to think this 

 disease is a sort of chronic roup, but the odor from it is not the same 

 as that of roup. Both are contagious and infectious, but the diph- 

 theretic roup is far more deadly in its action. When a fowl has an 

 attack of it the remedy must be applied promptly, for the hen soon 

 begins to show signs of losing strength and flesh. If only one bird 

 is attacked it is better to kill and burn her at once, move the rest to 

 fresh ground and give all a tonic so as to brace them up. It comes 

 on so suddenly that I have thought the birds carried the germs in 

 their mouths, for I have seen odd cases spring up where no sick 

 birds had ever been kept and in all such cases where the trouble was 

 found out and the sick fowl killed at once, the disease went as sud- 

 denly as it came. 



Symptoms. Fowl's body and legs are hot, comb is hot and of 

 much darker, brighter red. Later as the fever decreases it gets 

 paler. The throat is patched with white almost like a child's throat 

 in diphtheria. Any attempt to remove these patches results in bleed- 

 ing. Breath is foul and of a distinctly different type than roup smell. 

 When you are sure it is diphtheretic roup, take the fowl in the left 

 arm, holding it partly under the arm with the head well out and pour 

 good strong peroxide of hydrogen down its throat until it ceases to 

 foam. As soon as it stops foaming take the swab as mentioned in 

 canker, dip in powdered bluestone and swab the throat out with that, 

 or drop the dry powder on the spots; it will burn it out. Bluestone 



