RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



pressed together between thumb and forefinger in the direction of the beak 

 two ot three times. Pressure should also be applied between nostrils and 

 eyes in an upward direction. This massage helps to loOsen the discharge 

 in the nostrils and eyes. The bird's head is then plunged into the solution 

 of permanganate of potash for twenty oi* thirty gecorads, in fact the head 

 may be kept under the solution as long as the bird can tolerate it. The 

 solution is thus distributed through the nostrils and other canals and has 

 an astringent and slight disinfecting action. This treatment should be 

 given twice a day and continued until all symptoms have disappeared. 



If there are solid tumors in the eyelids, they should be opened so that 

 the skin may bleed freely. The cheesy matter should be removed and the 

 surrounding membrane touched with a 5 per cent carbolic acid or silver 

 nitrate solution, and then a cotton plug filled with some antiseptic, put 

 into the cavity. The cavity has to be washed out daily with an aiitiseptic 

 mixtiu:e, and a fresh cotton plug put in again to prevent the cavity from 

 healing too quickly. We have cured chickens in this way in about a fort- 

 night. 



As all these methods of treatment demand a great deal of time and 

 care, they cannot well be used for whole flocks, but the more valuable fowls 

 may be treated in this manner. Farmers and poultry men should first try 

 the permanganate of potash method of treatment as it is the easiest to em- 

 ploy. 



Food remedies influence roup only by strengthening the fowls and 

 assisting nature to throw off or conquer the disease. 



As in other infectious diseases, the most important thing is to prevent 

 an outbreak, or to suppress it as soon as possible. All diseased fowls should 

 be separated from the healthy one; and the healthy ones should be examined 

 daily, with a view to isolate newly affected birds. After the isolation of 

 the diseased birds, the poultry yard should be disinfected thoroughly with 

 a five per cent solution of carbolic acid, followed by a careful white-washing 

 of the walls, etc. Slightly diseased fowls, or any of special value, can be 

 cured, if much care is taken. Less valuable birds, which it. will not pay to 

 treat, should be killed as soon as manifiest symptoms of the disease appear 

 especially when the face becomes swollen. These fovrls, unless the best 

 care is taken, will remain diseased for months, or perhaps years, and give 

 rise to fresh outbreaks whenever an unfavorable season (with much wet 

 cold weather) occurs. 



The most effective preventative for roup is to keep fowls under good 

 sanitary conditions — in dry, roomy yards and dry, clean, airy houses which 

 are free from draughts and can easily be cleaned and disinfected. 



OTHER TREATMENTS OF ROUP 



DR. N. W. SANBORN 



At the commencement of the disease local medication is likely to give 



better results than internal administration of remedies. Both are needed, 



however, to give best results. In the treatment of roup, as in handling 



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