Pheasants Diseases. 



it a sliding glass top, and have a small sliding door at one 

 end. At the other, divide the box over for 4in., half its 

 depth. When you have any gape-affected young birds, heat 

 a brick, flat stone, or piece of slate, nearly hot enough to 

 singe the wood, place this in the partition at the end, and 

 drop on it six drops of carbolic acid. As soon as the box 

 fills with dense fumes, put in your affected bird for two or 

 three seconds, but take care not to suffocate it. Immediately 

 it is withdrawn put it in the fresh air, and in a few hours it 

 will be as well as ever, and entirely free of gapes. Extracting 

 the worms with horse hair, wire spirals and the like, is best 

 left to those who recommend the plan. The only reliable 

 resource is to acknowledge the value, and practise the use 

 of, turps and carbolic, and losses from gapes will not be very 

 formidable. 



For inflammation of the eyes in young birds, feed low for 

 a week, and bathe the eyes twice daily with a weak solution of 

 zinc chloride. 



Mature pheasants are perhaps the hardiest birds existing, 

 and never seem to die of anything but old age, and violence 

 at the hands of man or predatory birds and beasts. Some- 

 times they will pick up shot in the coverts and die of lead 

 poisoning, and sometimes they prefer to feed on injurious 

 not to say poisonous plants, such as yew, and pay the 

 consequent penalty ; but with ordinary good management 

 and avoidance of the errors we have pointed out, a stock of 

 pheasants will succumb only to the above-mentioned causes. 



