RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



Another good remedy for adult birds is to use a pill made as follows: 

 Equal parts pure lard, cayenne pepper, powdered ginger and mustard. 

 Rub all together until thoroughly mixed, then divide into, pills or slugs 

 the size of a kidndy bean. Give one of these pills or slugs at a dose and 

 repeat in three hours if necessary. . 



The bird will usually show signs of improvement at once and in from 

 ten to twenty-four hours will be ready to go back to a regular food ration, 

 which should consist at first of a little thoroughly cooked boiled rice lightly 

 seasoned with salt. Follow this with feedings of raw potato, raw beets 

 and a limited supply of dry grain and pure beef scrap. The trouble will 

 seldom recur where due to colic or other digestive disturbances, provided 

 care is taken to supply a plentiful amount of raw vegetable food in addition 

 to the meat food and grains. 



Where the above treatment fails to act the trouble is usually due to 

 some serious nerve or brain disease, and it will be best to kill the bird, but 

 do not despair of saving a chick or fowl affected with limbemeck until you 

 have first given this method of treatment a careful trial. 



PIP 



Pip, is sometimes a dry condition of the tongue appearing in several 

 diseases of the air passages, such as roup, catarrh, bronchitis and pneu- 

 monia. It is a symptom of disease, not a disease of itself. Pip, or the 

 dry state of the tongue, is produced by the rapid passing over the tongue 

 of feverish breath combined with increased temperature of the body. The 

 natural moisture is removed and secretion diminished. The tip of the 

 tongue being thin, shows the change plainly, becoming hard and dry. Let 

 alone the dry covering or hard membrane; to try to remove it is to inflame 

 the tongue and accomplish no good result. Study the whole bird, finding 

 out the trouble underlying this one symptom, treating the real disease. 

 If you must do something for the tongue, paint it twice a day with glycerine. 



Mr. Lewis Wright, the author of "The Book of Poultry," advances 

 the opinion that "there are occasional cases of a real epidemic of pip, which 

 cause death unless relieved, of which this is the distinguishing symptom, 

 and with no "dry" mouth at all. Three outbreaks in different yards have 

 come under our notice, and in two of them the scale at the tip of the tongue 

 was nearly as thick and quite as hard, as the nib of a quill pen, while the 

 edges were almost as sharp as a knife. The fatal results we believe to be 

 due to the soreness produced by these keen edges quite preventing the fowl 

 from swallowing. It was unmistakably 'about' in these yards. If a fowl 

 apparently well in the main, is seen to pick up and then drop its corn, the 

 mouth should be examined. If such a hard and sharp scale (very different 

 from the ordinary rather hard and sharp tip of a fowl's tongue) be found, 

 it should be removed by the thumb-nail, and the spot dressed a few times 

 with honey and borax. Give soft food for a day or two, and a couple of 

 morning doses of 20 grains Epsom salts, and the bird will speedily be well." 



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