RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 

 Treatment 



The treatment of this disease must be prompt and active. To wait 

 a few days or to be afraid to use good sized doses is to lose the fowl. The 

 disease is sudden, rapid in its course, and dangerous to life. Hence be quick 

 to recognize the first appearance of any sign of pneumonia and to meet the 

 indications. 



If you can arrange it conveniently, place the fowls in coops in a room 

 that can be warmed to 70 degrees of temperature, with some plan of fm-- 

 nishing moisture. If the room be otherwise dry and sunny, with heat 

 enough to allow for ventilation, you will get better results. Let the food 

 for a week be little besides raw eggs, milk and beef juice. This may be 

 given with bran, as a hot mash, or it very likely will have to be put- into 

 the throat by means of a dropping tube. If the bird is willing to eat, let 

 him; if he cannot, you must give him food or he is likely to die. 



Among the remedies in common use are two that you must avoid, 

 and these are quinine and liquor. They will do more harm than good, 

 and should not be used in acute troubles. Quinine is always to be avoided 

 in any acute inflammation of the chest. In small doses, as a tonic, it is 

 good in chronic diseases. 



There is no single remedy for pneumonia better than aconitine, early 

 administered and given in sure doses. The tincture, if reliable, will give 

 as good results. The trouble in giving medicine to a fowl is to be sure 

 that it is getting the right amount in the right way. One drop of the tinct- 

 ture, or one-fifteen-hundredth of a grain (1-1500) of the amorphous aconi- 

 tine, every two hours, during daylight, will do something toward bring- 

 ing the bird through the sickness. The small dose, often repeated, will 

 give results that are not obtained when giving large doses twice a day. 

 Make a few pills of mash and sulpho-carbolate of zinc, one grain of the 

 zinc in each pill, and make the bird swallow one morning and night. The 

 liquid medicines can be given in a little water from a spoon, or dropped from 

 a tube, or mixed with a mash if the bird swallows. 



CONSUMPTION 



Consumption and tuberculosis present certaip symptoms in common. 

 They are widely different in others. Consumption i^ likely to have fol- 

 lowed a badly cared for case of pneumonia, bronchitis or roup. Tuber- 

 culosis is always preceded by a previous case. Neither disease is likely 

 to appear in well cared for, sturdy fowls. Neither disease is inherited, 

 but fowls from weak ancestors fall a ready prey if the right conditions are 

 presented. 



Tuberculosis cattle, and persons, too, are to be viewed with suspicion 

 and avoided whenever possible. The danger is small, to be sure, but enough 

 to call for good care in preventing the commencement of trouble. The 

 better the general condition of your fowls, the less danger there is of con- 

 sumption or tuberculosis appearing in your flock. 



Consumption is a disease limited to the lung tissues, but in a small 

 proportion of cases is accompanied by a fetid diarrhoea. It is likely to 



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