146 Diseases of Poultry. 



TREATMENT: — Give one-half grain Quinine three 

 times a day, alternate this with a pill made with one drop 

 of castor oil mixed with meal or soft bread. If in the 

 course of three or four days the condition of the fowl is 

 not improved, it will be impossible to effect a cure. 



LICE. 



By being conversant with the different kinds of lice 

 that infest poultry, it will be an easy matter to destroy them. 

 There are four distinct species of lice that receive tlieir 

 nourishment from the bodies of fowls and chicks : body 

 lice, gray lice, shaft lice, and head lice. Body and shaft lice 

 live on the body of the fowls both winter and summer. 

 Gray lice and head lice are more annoying to chicks during 

 their younger days. We have one more variety of lice that 

 inhabit the poultry houses, and is commonly called mites, 

 chiggers, hen lice and spider lice, but the proper name for 

 them is coop lice. We will now take up the characteristics 

 and destruction of the different varieties of lice. 



COOP LICE. — Coop lice lie dormant in cold weather, 

 but in warm weather they multiply very rapidly. They 

 work at night when the fowls are at roost, at which time 

 millions of them swarm over the bodies of the poor birds. 

 They do not leave the fowl until daybreak. Having filled 

 themselves with blood they appear as a little red speck. Is 

 it any wonder that chickens prefer, and in many cases in- 

 sist, on roosting anywhere in preference to the hen-house 

 which is infested with lice? Coop lice during the day hide or 

 secrete themselves in nail holes, crevices, under loose boards, 

 etc. Sucking blood only at night. 



TREATMENT :— Kerosene oil will destroy and kill 



