THE INTESTINES AND CROP 



can find them. Give these birds a few drops of creolin in their drinking 

 water (just enough to turn it faintly milky), or -give them drinking water 

 in which has been disolved one one-tenth of a grain tablet of corrosive sublimate 

 to the quart of water. A good home remedy in any severe diarrhoea, and 

 often in mild cases of cholera, is to drop twenty to thirty drops of spirits 

 of camphor on sugar and dissolve the whole in a pint of water; place this 

 before the sick birds and allow no other drink. 



AH birds which show marked symptoms of the disease had be;tter be 

 killed and cremated at once. This is safest and best. Kill them by strang- 

 ling or by a sharp blow with a blunt club, breaking the neck. Do not draw 

 blood, as the blood is infectious, and you do not want to spill it. If they 

 bleed, scrape up all blood and burn with the body, and disinfect the place 

 where it fell. Rake up and burn aU litter used in houses or runs occupied 

 by infected birds. Spray the runs and all parts of the buildings with a 

 strong solution of creolin, or a one per cent solution of sulphuric acid in 

 water. Do not use any litter until you are sure that the disease is eradi- 

 cated. Thoroughly disinfect everything that could possibly be contami- 

 nated by the infected fowls, and repeat this as often as you find a new ciase. 

 The runs or yards should be thoroughly disinfected and should be ploughed 

 up often. 



Some of the quarantined birds may re'cover without other medicine 

 than that advised for the drinking water as before mentioned. The pro- 

 portion of creolin is about one teaspoonful to an ordinary wooden bucket- 

 ful of drinking water. I prefer the use of corrosive sublimate unless a large 

 number of birds are to be treated. This manner of general treatment is 

 the cheaper and the easiest way of handling the diseased birds. Individ- 

 ual cases may be treated in the case of valuable birds. These I give a one 

 one-thousandth of a grain tablet of corrosive sublimate (mercury bichloride) 

 every three hours. Food given should be easily digested soft food, and fed 

 sparingly. All droppings should be disinfected and burned or buried deeply. 



If no new cases develop within twenty days after the last known case 

 was quarantined and the premises disinfected the disease can be considered 

 checked. Remember that it is a germ disease, highly contagious, and that 

 prompt recognition and treatment and thorough disinfection are the only 

 means of stamping it out. 



ORDINARY DIARRHOEA 



Simple diarrhoea is an inflammation of the digestive organs causing 

 whitish, yellowish or even greenish loose discharges from the bowels, and 

 may result from a variety of causes. The more common causes are: Cli- 

 matic changes; a long, tiresome journey; too much food or drink after fast- 

 ing; exposure; too much "loosening" food (such as meat, oatfeed,bran, etc.); 

 overdosing with pepper and condition powders; foul water; becoming over- 

 heated and exhausted from being chased; want of shade in hot weather; 

 dampness; uncleanUness; crowding and vermin; these may one or all cause 

 diarrhoea. 



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