236 Profitable Poultry Keeping. 



CHAPTEE XXI. 



THE DISEASES OF POULTRY. 



General Treatment of Disease — Causes — Apoplexy — Bronchitis— Bumble Foot- 

 Catarrh — Consumption — Crao>p — Cropbound — Diarrhoea — Diphtheria — Egg 

 Organs — Feather Eating — Grapes — Roup —Cholera. 



Such a work as this would be incomplete were no reference 

 made to the diseases of poultry. We do not intend to go 

 into any long descriptions of the diseases which affect 

 domestic fowls, for they would mystify the reader, but shall 

 give short description s sufficient to enable a disease to be recog- 

 nized, and the best methods of treatment. It is a fact, however, 

 that the treatment of disease in birds presents a considerable 

 amount of difficulty to the ordinary poultry keeper, for the 

 body of the fowl being covered with feathers, and there being 

 so few ways in which the special complaints can be diagnosed, 

 one form of disease can very easily be mistaken for another. 

 There are, however, symptoms to be found accompanying all 

 diseases that may, by a little careful examination, be dis- 

 covered, and from these it is possible to learn, what is the 

 matter with a fowl. We may say that, where there are a 

 goodly number of fowls, it is much better to kill any bird 

 right off that presents the appearance of baving an infectious 

 disease upon it, rather than to run the risk of allowing it to 

 communicate the same to others. If the bird so affected be 

 a very valuable one, then an effort may be made to save it ; 



