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much boiled milk or " binding" food. Correct conditions for chicks: for adult fowls 

 give castor oil, castoria, etc. ; any laxative that happens to be convenient will do. 



Consumption follows colds, pneumonia, etc.; bird grows thin and weak, "goes 

 light ; " sometimes has good appetite, but passes food from the bowel undigested. In 

 early stages this disease may easily be confounded with anaemia. Treatment useless. 



Cramp see Rheumatism. 



Crop Bound give castor oil, or warm water; knead contents of crop, and try to force 

 them out gradually through the mouth of the bird, held head down ; if this fails, open the 

 crop, removing a few feathers and making a short incision through the breast, at the top 

 of the crop ; remove contents, and sew up, taking care not to sew skins together. 



Crop, enlarged can be treated by cutting out a part of the skin and sewing up; not 

 often worth the trouble. 



Crop, Inflammation of generally due to eating a poisonous or irritating substance; 

 not likely to be correctly diagnosed, and in most cases useless to treat when discovered. 

 Keep such substances away from fowls. 



Debility general weakness, without indications of organic disease; give good care, 

 and start on the up grade with tonics or stimulants. 



Diarrhoea check by giving boiled milk to drink and dry food. 



Diphtheria see Roup. 



Distemper a term loosely applied to a variety of diseases, generally a mild cold or 

 fever. 



Dysentery an acute bloody diarrhoea, mostly incurable. 



Egg Bound treatment not often permanently successful ; give dose of castor oil; if 

 this fails wash the vent with warm water, and pass in a feather dipped in sweet oil. 



Egg Broken in Body hen will die. 



Enteritis a non-contagious, acute diarrhoea, due to poison or irritants, or to the 

 presence of worms. 



Feather Eating probably originates in an abnormal appetite. Nearly always the 

 spread of the vice can be prevented by killing the guilty bird. Watch for it. 



Frost Bite to combs apply two or three times a day a mixture of vaseline, five table- 

 spoons ; glycerine, two tablespoons ; spirits of turpentine, one teaspoon. When feet are 

 badly frosted kill the bird. 



Gapes gape worms in the windpipe. Place the birds, a few at a time, in a large box 

 covered with a coarse cloth, and having a door in the side ; dust air-slaked lime on the 

 cloth. The lime breathed in by the birds causes the worms to relax their hold, and they 

 are coughed up. 



Giddiness a mild form of apoplexy ; can often be relieved by bleeding under the wing. 



Indigestion generally due to over-feeding; correct the diet, give abundance of green 

 food, compel exercise, avoid stimulants. 



Itch a warm weather eruption on the skin, often followed by loss of feathers : anoint 

 with mixture one part carbolic acid, two parts lard. 



Lameness due to accident or rheumatism. 



Leg Weakness generally due to forcing, or to lack of bone forming material in the 

 food : discontinue high feeding, but still feed well, giving cut bone or bone meal liberally. 



Liver Disease due to over-feeding ; begins in congestion of the liver : if allowed to 

 reach the stage when inflammation sets in, does not yield to treatment. Use a good liver 

 pill, and, of course, correct wrong conditions. 



Pip a condition of the tongue accompanying diseases when the bird is obliged to 

 breathe through the mouth ; treat the disease ; wet the tongue frequently with glycerine. 



Pneumonia brought on by exposure to extreme heat or cold, and by sudden change, 

 dampness, etc. ; generally incurable. 



Rattling in the Throat see Bronchitis. 



