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Sometimes a fowl, for no apparent reason, and with 

 no other symptoms of disease, loses weight till it is 

 hardly more than a skeleton. Sometimes this condi- 

 tion is a symptom of tuberculosis, and sometimes of 

 aspergillosis ; sometimes it is due to intestinal worms 

 and sometimes to lice or mites. It may also be due 

 to lack of sufficient nourishing food or to poor diges- 

 tion. Whatever the cause, the poultry keeper must 

 find out what it is and remedy it. 



Limberneck 



"Limberneck" and "wryneck" are terms which are 

 often confused. In limberneck the muscles of the 

 neck are paralyzed so that the bird cannot raise its 

 head. In wryneck the neck is twisted till the head is 

 sometimes turned almost entirely around. Limber- 

 neck is caused by indigestion or the eating of moldy 

 grain or putrid meat, but wryneck is considered a 

 sort of epileptic or nervous disease. 



Limberneck can often be relieved by a good dose 

 of physic. Dr. Salmon prescribes fifty or sixty 

 grains of Epsom salts or three or four teaspoons of 

 castor oil for an adult bird. Director Quisenberry 

 in "The Poultryman's Guide" recommends for small 

 chicks a dose of from two to ten drops of oil of tur- 

 pentine mixed with an equal quantity of sweet oil, 

 followed at intervals of from one to two hours by a 

 teaspoon or less of ginger tea. This tea is made by 

 mixing one teaspoon of ginger with half a cup of 

 hot milk and sweetening a little with sugar. Adult 

 fowls may have from one to two teaspoons at a dose. 

 When the birds begin to improve, let their first meal 

 be a little boiled rice. 



Rheumatism 

 This disease is an inflammation of the connective 



