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there appears slight bloody streaks in the discharge, and this may in- 

 crease until the flow is nearly pure blood. 



Severe cases show some irritation of the throat and nostrils, a 

 slight discharge appearing in mouth and eyes. At the end of the first 

 day, you may expect to find the bird decidedly weak. The comb gets 

 darker than in health, passing from red to purple as the disease pro- 

 gresses. 



Treatment. Very often poultrymen are inclined to term bad 

 cases of diarrhea as cholera. Genuine cases of chicken cholera are 

 rare. But when fowls are infected with this disease, treatment should 

 not be attempted. Kill and burn the bodies of all infected birds. 

 Clean out the buildings in which they are located and thoroughly 

 disinfect; the runs should be disinfected with quick lime. 



INTESTINAL WORMS. 



Symptoms. The parasitic worms of the intestinal tract may be 

 grouped as tapeworms, flukes, roundworms and thorn-headed worms. 

 The birds usually become weak and dull and isolate themselves from 

 the rest of the flock and show signs of diarrhea. The fowls should 

 be moved to fresh ground every tw T o or three years. In cases of in- 

 fection of the digestive tract by the parasitic worms, the droppings 

 should be removed from the houses, and any parasites or their eggs 

 destroyed which may be in them, by mixing with quick lime or 

 saturating them with a ten per cent solution of sulphuric acid. 



Treatment. "When treating diseased birds, these should always 

 be isolated and confined. For treatment of roundworms, the follow- 

 ing is recommended : Dissolve in the water which is to be used for 

 each bird to be treated, mixing the mash, two grains of santonine for 

 each bird to bo treated. Mix a small amount of mash and add one- 

 half teaspoonful of castor oil for each bird. For tape worms, Dr. 

 Salmon recommends the following : Mix in the feed a teaspoonful 

 of powdered pomegranate root bark for every fifty head of birds. 



LIMBERNECK OR WRYNECK. 



Symptoms. This disease is easily recognized, for the reason that 

 the birds practically loses control of the neck muscles which seem to 

 be partially paralyzed, and the bird stands with its neck limp and 

 arched, sometimes resting on the ground between its feet. In cases 

 of wryneck, the head is usually twisted backward and forward, and 

 the head sometimes being turned almost entirely around. Limber- 

 neck is caused by intestinal troubles of some sort. Wryneck is 

 thought to be a sort of epileptic disease of a direct brain and nerve 

 trouble. 



Treatment. Limberneck is usually easy to remedy, but in severe 

 cases of wryneck, the only thing left to do is to kill the bird. When 

 first discovered in small chicks, they should be given a dose of from 

 two to ten drops of oil of turpentine mixed with an equal quantity 

 of sweet oil. Prepare a ginger tea, made by mixing one teaspoonful 

 of powdered ginger with one-half cup of hot milk and sweetened with 

 a little sugar. Adult fowls may have from one to two tablespoonfuls 

 at a dose, but small chicks require only one-half to one teaspoonful 

 every hour or two. When they begin to show signs of improvement, 



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