194 Diseases of birds, and their treatment and cure.


Take the bird in the hand and you will find the round, plump,

healthy breast is assuming a V' s ^ a P e d appearance ; the bird is losing

weight, and if not doctored at once, will rapidly lose flesh until the

breastbone is like a knife-blade and the eye is dull and sunken.

Sometimes the attack is so severe that the bird is found looking like

a round ball, and if it persists in keeping on the floor of cage instead

of the perch I consider it is beyond recovery; it is a hopeless case,

and it would be better to kill it and put it out of suffering. Some

people used to think this disease was consumption. It is not; it is

absolutely a particular form of bowel trouble, which, rightly or

wrongly, I term <l gastro-enteritis,” and, I am happy to say, I have

a medicine that quickly cures, by removing the cause and going to

the seat of the trouble at once. If given this particular medicine

(which is absolutely harmless) in the early stages of the disease, the

bird recovers rapidly, even in the short space of two or three hours.

I have cured nearly every bird of mine in the early stage of the

disease.


The moment the cause is removed it is astonishing how the

bird brightens in eye and assumes its sleek tightness of feather, and

puts on flesh as rapidly as it had previously lost it.


Treatment . — If the bird is very bad, take it gently in the hand,

open the beak, and dip a knitting-needle or anything about that size

into the bottle of medicine which I call “ Pinko ” (which can be had

from me), drop 5 separate drops, allowing the bird to swallow each

drop before giving the next, or, of course, it might choke, then return

the bird to cage and put 20 drops into a tablespoonful of water for

the bird to drink, giving this as the only drink for two days, then

miss a day and give it again the next, it is more than likely the bird

will not require the medicine after the second day.


For Parrots, Parrakeets, and large birds a good teaspoonful of

“Pinko” in 1| tablespoonfuls of water for the bird to drink, given

as above mentioned. It is not necessary to alter the food the bird

has been having, but in the case of Parrots, etc., give a little biscuit

or bread sop sweetened, and to insectivorous birds a little extra live

food, such as meal-worms, live ant-eggs or wasp-grubs in season.


(To be continued.)



