RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



Treatment 



The only treatment- necessary in most cases is to remove the cause. 

 Correct the diet and provide pure drinking water. In mild cases, the comb 

 does not change color ; the feathers may be ruffled and the fowl alittle dumpish. 

 A little powdered charcoal in the mash food is an effective remedy. - It is a 

 good plan to keep granulated charcoal constantly before the fowls in a box 

 like the grit box. For obstinate cases of diarrhoea, give the fowl a table- 

 spoonful of olive oil to cleanse intestines. Follow by using twelve tablets 

 of mercury bi-chloride one one-thousandth of a grain, drug strength each, 

 in each quart of drinking water. Feed sparingly and avoid grain with coarse 

 hulls, like oats and barley. Decrease the amount of meat food, use less oats 

 and bran in the mash, and use more middlings or some low grade flour in 

 the mash. Scalded skim-milk may be advantageously used for mixing the 

 mashes. 



DIARRHOEA FROM POISONS 



Paint skins, coarse salt, salt meat, white lead, lye, unslaked lime and fer- 

 tilizers are the more frequent poisons which cause diarrhoea in poultry. 

 Sometimes arsenic, Paris-green and spray mixtures also cause trouble. 

 Such cases of poisoning should be prevented by keeping these substances 

 out of thereach of fowls. The cases of poisoning are seldom discovered in time 

 to save the bird. The most common symptoms of poisoning with any of 

 the above named poisons are: Inflammation of the crop, with copious 

 watery discharge from the mouth, frequently blood-streaked, sleepiness, 

 diarrhoea, convulsions or twitching of body, dumpishness and sore mouth. 



Treatment 

 Give whites of eggs freely and an abundance of flaxseed tea. 



ENTERITIS 



Enteritis of bacterial enteritis is a very common disease among poul- 

 try. It is caused by a disordered state of the digestive organs, which favors 

 the development in large numbers of several varieties of bacteria in the 

 intestinal tract. The disease is often mistaken for true cholera. The 

 predisposing causes of this ailment are uncleanliness, foul drinking water, 

 putrid meat food, and filthy or rotten food of any sort. 



Symptoms 



The affected bird is inactive and dumpish. The comb is at first pale 

 and limp, and later becomes dark and purplish. There is an abundant 

 dark' or greenish diarrhoea. Diarrhoea may become bloody. The bird 

 appears sleepy and unwilling to walk around. The bird may be sick a week 

 of several weeks before death takes place. Some birds recover without 

 treatment. The appetite may be voracious, or the bird may refuse to take 

 food. The crop may be fuU of food, or may contain only a little slimy 

 fluid. When the bird dies, the comb is always dark. Often the bird may 

 appear dumpish and sleepy, and show a bad diarrhoea; the owner, picking 



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