DISEASES OF POULTRY. 



SYMPTOMS, CAEE, TREATMENT, PREVENTIVES, REMEDIES, ETC. 



IN the climate of this country there is no need .of having any diseases 

 among our domestic poultry if proper care and judgment in the treatment of 

 the same were manifested on the part of the breeder. We have given in this 

 connection a series of diseases that are known to infest poultry yards not 

 properly cared for, with preventives and remedies for the same, in the 

 hope, that should occasion require, benefit may be derived therefrom. 



Apoplexy. Fowls are attacked with this disease when apparently in 

 the most robust health suddenly fall down, die, or are found without 

 sensation or the power of locomotion. Bleeding is recommended for the 

 disease ; take a sharp-pointed pen-knife and open one of the largest veins 

 under the wing in a longitudinal direction, by pressing the thumb on the 

 vein at any point between the opening and the body, the blood will flow 

 freely and relieve the fowl at once. Stimulating food should not be given 

 to fowls liable to this disease. 



Black Rot. The symptoms of this disease are blackening of the comb, 

 resembling mortification ; swelling of the legs and feet, and general 

 wasting of the system. It can only be cured in the earlier stages by frequent 

 doses of castor-oil, to keep up purging ; at the same time giving freely 

 strong ale or other stimulants, with warm and nourishing food. 



Catarrh in Chickens. The symptoms of this disease are not dis- 

 similar to those in the human subject, being a watery or slimy discharge of 

 mucus from the nostrils, swelling of the eyelids, and, in extreme cases, 

 the sides of the face are swollen. The cause of the disease is somewhat 

 similar to that of roup. It is said if this disease is not promptly attended 

 to it frequently terminates in roup. Food, consisting of boiled mashed 

 potatoes, well dusted with black pepper, is good. Pills, made the size of 

 a large pea, of mashed potatoes, with cayenne pepper placed in the center, 

 and given to them every other day, at feeding time, for a few days, will 

 insure a radical cure, and give the fowls a good appetite. Dr. BENNET 

 claims that the following will also prove efficacious it never having been 

 known to fail : Take finely pulverized, fresh burnt charcoal, and new yeast, 



