TURKEY RAISING 



or if the job is not well done, the poults must be carefully 

 examined soon after they are hatched and every few 

 days thereafter. Examine most carefully the head and 

 throat in the sections where the head lice are apt to occur 

 and if any of these pests are found, the places where they 

 occur must be carefully greased with lard or some similar 

 grease. The lard will kill the lice but care must be taken 

 to see that not too much is used as it might have a fatal 

 effect on the poults themselves. Do not be content with 

 greasing the poults once and expect to get rid of the head 

 lice in that way but examine them several times at inter- 

 vals of a few days so that if other lice are found they can 

 be greased again. Greasing the wing bar of each poult 

 is also frequently practiced where lice are found to occur 

 at that point. Do not dust young poults freely with 

 ordinary insect powder as it may prove harmful to them, 

 especially in the way of causing sore eyes. Sodium fluor- 

 ide applied according to the directions given below may 

 be safely used. 



For any kind of lice which occur on turkeys, sodium 

 fluoride will be found to be a most effective treatment. 

 Where sodium fluoride is used on chickens it is recom- 

 mended that it be used either in the form of a powder or 

 else as a dip. For turkeys, however, dipping is not recom- 

 mended. Sodium fluoride is exceedingly poisonous to all 

 species of lice killing both the young and the adults and 

 the young which emerge from the eggs which were pres- 

 ent at the time of treatment. This chemical is not very 

 well known and is not very widely kept in drug stores. 



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