RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



of the difficulty by finding all the dead ones; but in spite of much hunting 

 I would miss one occasionally, and a few chicks would be lost in conse- 

 quence. 



Some time after my fowls had the first siege of it, it started again, but 

 I prevented serious loss by confining my birds in their yards for ten days. 



I let two well-grown hens eat about fifteen maggots each from a de- 

 cajring carcass one afternoon. By morning they were staggering about 

 and could not eat. In two days they were all right again with no treat- 

 ment. I expected they would free themselves of the poison for I have 

 seen worse cases get well. I wanted to prove fully that it was not a germ 

 disease; if it was, they would have been worse. Each fowl is affected ac- 

 cording to the number of poisoned maggots that i)t eats. If the number is 

 small, it i^ but slightly affected, and soon recovers, but if it eats a crop full, 

 it dies in a short time. 



I have known cases where a fowl would eat enough to make it sick for 

 two days and still recover. 



Last summer I wanted to learn some of the effects of maggots and de- 

 caying flesh on fowls and chicks and tried to produce limberneck by placing 

 dead fowls about; but the chicks only grew faster, the weather was cool and 

 and the carcasses did not decay fast enough to become poisonous. In Sep- 

 tember I found a Leghorn hen dead in one of the houses and put her on the 

 tin roof, intending to bury her in the morning, but I forgot all about it until 

 a few days later, when I saw three or four dead hens and many more sick 

 ones. Then I knew at once that the dead hen was the cause. The fowls 

 that were dead had eaten maggots from the carcass during the afternoon 

 and died during the following night. About as many more died the next 

 day. I now had more experience, but I paid more for it than I had intended 

 to. 



Treatment 



When sick fowls are discovered give any medicine that you may have 

 that will counteract the poison and assist ip throwing if off. Frequently 

 cholera cure will do the work. There is no necessity for treating the well 

 fowls for the trouble is not contagious. The best way to save them is to 

 pen them up for ten days and by that time the maggots wiU have eaten 

 the carcass which caused the trouble and will have gone into the ground. 



LIMBERNECK IN FOWLS AND CHICKS 

 P. T. WOODS. M. D. 



Limberneck, strictly speaking, is a symptom of a diseased condition 

 rather than a distinct poultry disease. It is common in all parts of the 

 country and easily recognized by the peculiar appearance and the partial 

 paralysis of the neck muscles, which has given rise to the name limberneck. 



The bird practically loses all control of the neck muscles and stands or 

 squats with its neck either limp or arched, the crown of the head resting 

 on the ground between its feet. Sometimes the bird is able to lift its head 



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