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MRS. BASLEY'S WESTERN POULTRY BOOK 



the droppings or eggs of worms from 

 the other birds. By the persistent use 

 of turpentine, using 60 drops in a quart 

 of water, or mixing it in that proportion 

 in the food, for a week at a time, you 

 can get rid of them. Also disinfect the 

 ground. The only thing that I can see is 

 for you to keep up this treatment, for a 

 week every two months, giving turpen- 

 tine either in the food or water. I would 

 not be discouraged because that is a 

 sure remedy and by watching and notic- 

 ing the droppings, you need not fail in 

 rearing the chickens. 



WORMS FROM PIGEONS My chickens' 

 gizzards are affected by red worms 

 about the size of a pin. All the stock 

 I raised last year seemed affected, al- 

 though the eggs came from different 

 places. I have the Brown Leghorns, 

 Brahmas and R. I. Reds. I feed all the 

 various grains, plenty of greens and 

 good meat and bone. The only thing 

 you recommend that I have not fed is 

 charcoal, still as chicks they got it in, 

 the chick feed. I have given them tur- 

 pentine in food and water at various 

 times and it seemed to have the desired 

 result, but today I learned different, the 

 gizzard is penetrated and has a sore 

 spot caused by these worms. All the 

 stock in different yards are affected. 



I get plenty of eggs and the chickens 

 look good, combs nice and red, never- 

 theless I find them all affected the same 

 way. Mrs. G. S. L. 



Answer I have been through the 

 same trouble myself and so can help 

 you. I found out that my chickens were 

 getting the worms or the eggs of the 

 worms from neighboring pigeons. The 

 droppings of the pigeons contained ^the 

 eegs of the worms and in a short time 

 the droppings of the chickens also had 

 them and the other chickens ate them, 

 and so on they kept increasing. First of 

 all I gave the chickens the turpentine 

 which I recommended to you. A tea- 

 spoonful in a quart of water. Mix the 

 food with that water, also put a teaspoon- 

 ful in a quart of the drinking water and 

 allow no other water for drinking. Keep 

 this treatment up for a week. Mean- 

 while clean up the yards by having them 

 either ploughed under or dug up and a 

 crop of some kind planted, something 

 that will grow quickly, such as wheat or 

 barley, and as far as possible destroy 

 the birds that are bringing you the trou- 

 ble, for I cannot but think it must T>e 

 pigeons or some other wild birds. The 



worms will kill the young chickens, but 

 they dp not always kill the older fowls. 

 Sometimes the worms come from, un- 

 clean or spoiled food, from "webby" 

 grains and bad animal food. You will 

 have to discover for yourself where 

 they are getting the worms from and 

 cut off the source of supply. 



INTESTINAL WORMS I wish a little in- 

 formation and advice in regard to a val- 

 uable Buff Orpington cockerel I own. 

 He has become mopy and goes away 

 under the trees by himself, and has lost 

 over half of his weight in a month. He 

 eats like a horse, though, of everything 

 I give my hens, but shakes his head 

 an awful lot, as though something was 

 wrong. I looked in his throat and it 

 looks all right. He has changed in color 

 from a light buff to a very dark red 

 since acting unwell, and has grown to 

 be a homely, dopey bird, from a real 

 beautiful lively one a short time ago. 

 M. J. Q. 



Answer I think your Buff Orpington 

 cockerel has intestinal worms. You had 

 better give him 25 drops of spirits of 

 turpentine on a lump of bread, or in a 

 spoonful of water, and follow that im- 

 mediately with two teaspoonfuls of cas- 

 tor oil. Keep him shut up so you can 

 watch the droppings and remove and 

 burn or bury them deeply. If you do 

 not find worms in his droppings, give 

 him ten drops of tincture of male fern 

 on a lump of sugar, followed in an hour 

 by a dose of castor oil. This is for tape 

 worms. Both the remedies should be 

 given after twelve hours or more fast- 

 ing. 



Dr. Sanborn says : If you suspect 

 worms, try to remove them. Dissolve 

 in the water that is to be used for mix- 

 ing the mash, two grains of santonine 

 for each bird to be treated. Mix a small 

 amount of mash, quite dry and add cas- 

 tor oil, one-half teaspoonful for each 

 bird. Feed this to the suspected birds, 

 watching for the results of the "worm 

 treatment." All droppings should be, 

 collected often and put out of reach of 

 the birds. 



SEVERAL KINDS I am in despair and 

 it is lice, lice, lice. We have Brown 

 Leghorns, and as they will not sit, we 

 borrowed a setting hen and she only 

 stayed with us long enough to give our 

 hens a supply of grey head lice. When 

 we discovered them we went to work 

 with a lice killer, sprayed the coops, 



