RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



the disease. The droppings of a fowl having roup may or may not have 

 the "roup smell." Birds with chronic roup frequently have a ravenous 

 appetite, but do not grow or take on flesh in proportion to the amount of 

 food eaten. Bye inflammation in roup may lead to ulceration and loss of 

 sight. In some cases, when the discharges are purulent, portions of the 

 nostrils soften and come away in the slough. 



The easily recognized "roup smell" is always present in this disease, 

 and whenever you smell roup there you can find it if you look for it. Do 

 not forget that. If you disinfect thoroughly after roup you may get the 

 smell out of the house and runs, but if the foul odor sticks and comes up good 

 and strong on the first warm day after a frost or light cold snap, look your 

 flock over for new cases, and thoroughly disinfect the quarters again — first 

 removing all sick birds. 



Handling roupy birds sometimes results in the operator contracting a 

 similar disagreeable disease. Whether it is identical with the fowl's dis- 

 ease or not I do not know, but it has the same smell. I have seen several 

 cases of "roup" in men, and have heard of others. One case was my own, 

 the infection of one of my eyes by roupy matter coughed into it by a bird 

 I was handling. The eye was swollen and painful, and yielded slowly to 

 treatment. In the fall of 1900 I saw one case and knew of two others where 

 the men were handling a great many roupy birds. The men had marked 

 roupy symptoms, and the cases ran a cburse of about two weeks. The eyes 

 were swollen and "bunged up". There was roupy discharge from the eyes 

 and nostrils, and the discharge had the "roup smell." 



TREATMENT 



When the disease first makes its appearance, remove every siuk bird 

 from the flock as soon as you can find it; establish quarantine for all sus- 

 pects; clean up and use a good non-poisonous disinfectant, like creolin, 

 sulpho-naphthol or nap-creol, freely about the houses and runs. Kill all 

 very sick birds and burn them. Do not keep roupy birds moping about 

 to infect others. It is not wise to waste time and money doctoring, and 

 it is not good judgment to waste two or three dollars' worth of time and 

 medicine on a dollar bird. If roup does attack your flock, try to stamp 

 it out as soon aa you notice the first symptoms. Don't wait foi the first 

 case to appear, but prevent the disease by good care and management. 

 Creolin, one teaspoonful in an ordinary bucket (ten quarts) of drinking 

 water, is an effective remedy. In individual birds the discharge can be 

 dried up by using creolin and water, equal parts, for swabbing out the 

 throat, and for painting the nostrils. For bathing the eyes, use a little 

 more water. Apply it with a bit of absorbent cotton twisted about the 

 end of a toothpick, or use the end of a stiff feather. 



If the disease is taken in hand early it can frequently be stamped out 

 by using a creolin spray. Mix one teaspoonful of "pure creolin in a gallon 

 of water. With a small spray pump that throws a very fine mist, spray 

 this solution about the poultry houses after the birds have gone to roost. 

 Spray it a,bout the heads of the birds so that they may inhale the vapor, 



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