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toms. Market all birds left in flock where outbreak occurred, if 

 necessary. Strenuous measures necessary. 



Diarrhoea, dropping off color and offensive. Cause: Bad feed 

 or Avater, mild poisoning. Treatment: Remove cause, give 

 l^hysic, ]nit charcoal in mash. Acute form is known as dysentery. 



Diphtheria. — Avery contagious disease which spreads rapidly. 

 Symptoms, yellowish ulcers on the tongue, mouth, throat, and 

 Avindpipe. Remove affected birds from flock and j^aint ulcers 

 with tincture iodin, apply glycerin to soften crusts. Add a little 

 hyposuli^hate of soda to drinking water. 



Egg bound. — Cause: Abnormal eggs or weakened oviduct. 

 Treatment: Soften vent and interior with sweet oil, hold vent 

 over pail of steaming water, then put back on nest. Careful 

 manipulation of parts and egg may be tried. 



Favus or white comb, grayish white spots on comb. Treat- 

 ment: Remove and paint with iodine. 



Feather eating, more common with chicks. Cause: Poorly 

 balanced ration, too closely confined, no exercise. Treatment: 

 Correct conditions. 



Frozen head parts.^ Treatment: Ointment of five joarts vase- 

 line, two parts glycerine, and one part of turpentine. 



Leg weakness, loss of use of legs. Cause: Too much fat-form- 

 ing food, lack of ash. With chicks, too hot floors, confined to 

 colon}^ house too long. Correct causes, increase green food. 



Limberneck, neck limp, nervous trouble, from intestinal 

 worms, indigestion, or looisoning from bad food. Two to three 

 teasjooons of turpentine, if due to worms. Remove cause. 



Liver troubles, birds dumpish, black combs, yellow diarrhoea, 

 liver enlarged, shrunken, marbled. Cause: Too concentrated a 

 diet, not enough exercise. Treatment: More exercise and green 

 food. Correct ration if too rich. 



Pip. — The result of a disease in which there has been ulcera- 

 tion of the tongue or other parts of the mouth. "Wash the mouth 

 frecpiently mth water in which is dissolved one ounce of either 

 boracic acid or chlorate of potash. 



Roup, cartarrh symj^toms with cheesy matter and cankers, 

 swollen eyes, offensive odor. Cause : same as for colds with addi- 

 tion of germs. Very contagious. Treatment: Isolate sick birds, 

 mark with Avhite spiral leg bands, keep in pen by themselves and 

 sell at end of season. Disinfect quarters. Pens must be made dry. 



Scaley leg, rough scales caused by a leg mite. Treatment: 

 Dip shanks, not feathers, into a solution of equal parts of kero- 

 sene and raw linseed oil. 



