RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



PNEUMONIA 



Pneumonia, lung fever or winter fever, is an acute, infectious, croupy 

 inflammation of the air cells of the lungs. This is a contagious disease, 

 caused by a special germ, which needs only certain conditions to develop. 

 These conditions are debility, with exposure to cold and damp, sudden 

 changes in weather, too close confinement and coddling of the fowls for 

 fear they will get cold; in fact, anything that renders the fowls tender and 

 delicate. Overshown birds and those kept in wai-m, tight houses that are 

 poorly ventilated are especially liable to pneumonia. Brooder chicks too 

 closely confined in warm brooders or overheated brooder houses are fre- 

 quently attacked with this disease. 



It is the opinion of many reliable, and experienced poultrymen that 

 the open-front scratching shed plan of housing and other open-front types 

 of buildings will do more to prevent pneumonia than medicine will to cure it. 



Symptoms 



Labored breathing. Every respiration ends in a grunting or groan- 

 ing sound, fowl shows no disposition to move about, and seems to devote 

 all its energies to the effort to breathe. The bird's position is peculiar to 

 the disease. Usually it is a half-squatting, half-standing position, with 

 wings drooped and held away from the body, neck stretched, mouth open 

 and panting for breath. If the ear is held close to the chest a crackling 

 noise not unlike the sound of crumpling parchment will be heard. 



Treatment 



Remove , the bird to warm quarters where the temperature wiU not 

 go below or much above 65 degrees Fahrenheit. If the atmosphere can 

 be kept moist with steam heat, so much the better. Give an aconite, byronia 

 and spongia comp. tablet (1-100 of a grain drug strength each) one every 

 three hours. If the bird will not drink, give teaspoonful of s mixture of 

 raw egg and milk. Feed nothing but egg and milk until the breathing be- 

 comes easier. Give no solid food for at least forty-eight hours. As thi; 

 fowl recovers, gradually harden it to a cooler temperature, and do not re- 

 turn it to the flock until it is strong and able to stand the temperature of 

 the poultry house. Feed easily digested and stimulating soft food while 

 convalescent. 



EYE TROUBLES 



The most common eye trouble is conjunctivitis, a catarrhal inflam- 

 mation of the mucous membrane about the eye. It may result from the 

 extension of this inflammation of the throat or nose to the eye membrane. 

 Sometimes it is confined entirely to the eye and not dependent upon other 

 disease. 



The causes are bad hygiene, exposure to cold winds, draughty, injuries 

 and irritating dust. Symptoms are gumming of the eyelids with mucous 

 discharge from the eyes. There is great swelling of the face about the eye 

 on one or both sides. The disease may appear as a symptom of roup but 



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