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bryonia and aconite in the water will take it away without any bad 

 results. But if it is neglected it will develop into roup. 



Roup and Canker. 



My chickens' eyes get sore and close ; some have canker in the mouth 

 and will not eat. 



Your chickens have roup. Canker in the mouth is caused from 

 many things, and is often quite distinct from roup. Fussing with mild 

 remedies is little good. Take a hairpin, open the mouth and draw 

 through the place, bringing all the cheesy matter with the hairpin if 

 possible. Get all of it, even if it makes the mouth bleed, then wash or 

 swab the place with any disinfectant and put all the dry powdered 

 bluestone on that it will hold. Keep the bird in your arms awhile 

 until it has been absorbed, then set it away in a dry, cool pen. You 

 may have to repeat, but it usually effects a cure at two dressings that 

 is, if it is canker without roup. But when it is accompanied with a 

 roupy smell, it is hardly safe to bother with it, for very few birds 

 amount to much after being so badly affected. (See Part VIII, Vol. I.) 



Roup or Chicken Pox. 



A swelling appeared under the eyes and above the nose of a gobbler 

 similar to a water blister on a person. This was on a six-months gobbler ; 

 now a hen is affected. It does not look like roup to me. The eyes are 

 not closed. 



If there is no roup smell, it is chicken pox. If you have had ex- 

 perience with roup, test the trouble by the smell. Feed a little sul- 

 phate of iron in the mash in either case and if it is roup, dip the head 

 in a ten per cent solution of creolin and warm water. Do this several 

 times if necessary. If it is chicken pox the lumps will be hard; dip in 

 stronger solution and rub carbolized vaseline over the head. Clean 

 up and scald all drinking vessels and feed troughs and you will stamp 

 it out. 



Chicks Droopy With Crop Catarrh. 



My chicks stand around and droop as they do with white diarrhoea, 

 except they do not show any other evidence of it but to drop their wings. 

 Their crops are large and soft, and when I press on the crop a slimy, 

 clear nuid runs from the crop. 



Catarrh or inflammation of the crop cause, indigestion from over- 

 feeding, irritating or moldy food, foul seeds, etc. Treatment In 

 serious cases, empty the crop by holding fowl head down and very 

 gently working out the sour liquid. When crop is empty, give epsom 

 salts or a mixture about six grains subnitrate of bismuth and three 

 grains bicarbonate of soda in a small amount of drinking water for 

 each dozen chicks. Take away all food for about eighteen hours and 

 then feed little and often. 



