1026 POULTRY. 



INDIGESTION. 



Cause.-r-Abuse in diet, as overfeeding, stimulating foods, etc. 

 , Symptoms. — Moping ; no appetite ; droppings scanty, and un- 

 healthy appearance. 



Treatment. — Five grains of rhubarb daily, changing every fourth 

 day to one grain of calomel. Give small portion twice daily of 

 easily digested, well-cooked food. Give but little water, and only 

 after eating. Powdered charcoal in the food is usually sufficient to 

 set the fowl right. 



LEG-WEAKSESS. 



Cause. — Lack of lime phosphates in the food ; overfeeding, pro- 

 ducing disproportion of flesh to, frame-work ; constitutional muscular 

 weakness; 



Symptoms. — Knock-knees, crodked breast-bone, squatting on 

 the ground, etc. 



Treatment. —Bone-dust is a preventive. Give three times a 

 day, in pill form, — 



Sulphate of iron , 1 gr. 



Strychnine. . tV S 1 - 



, Phosphate of lime ; . 5 gr, 



Sulphate of quinine J gr. 



MCE. 



' Treatment. — For prevention, sprinkle the nest, coop, etc., with 

 a carbolic disinfecting powder. Also, remove from the fowl-houses 



Fig. 1377.— Wing-louse 

 (Philopterus Dissimilis). 



Fig. 1378,— Feather-louse 

 (Liotheum Pallidum). 



Fig. 1379.— Turkey-louse 

 v (Trichodectes). 



and coops all the old straw, hay, etc., and burn it. Then put the 

 coops in the fowl-house, and fumigate two hours with burning brim* 

 stone. Wash everything with strong potash water .(concentrated 

 lye), and there will be a house as free from vermin as one cap desire. 



