RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



watery. As the inflammation of the bowel lining increases there appear 

 slight bloody streaks in the discharge, and this may increase until the flow 

 is nearly pure blood. 



Severe cases show some irritation of the throat and nostrils, a slight 

 discharge appearing in mouth and eyes. At the end of the first day you 

 may expect to find the bird decidedly weak. The comb gets darker than 

 in health, passing from red to purple as the disease progresses. Hill, in 

 his book, "Diseases of Poultry," gives the best description of the post- 

 mortem appearance of this disease, as follows: "Lining membrane of the 

 mouth livid, ^cept toward the outside which was pale; throat purple and 

 full of sticky, dirty, yellowish matter; tip of tongue hardened and partly 

 detached; eyes sunk deep into the sockets; eyelids emphysematous or swollen; 

 gizzard empty, except a little gravel and thin acid fluid; muscular substance 

 of a deep red color; intestines extensively inflamed, with extravasated blood 

 patches under the mucous membrane, and here and there corrosions. The 

 matter contained in the intestines was of a dirty, thin, ichorous, acrid nature; 

 liver deeply congested and increased in volume; lungs slightly congested and 

 pleuritic exudation; heart purplish red and studded with echymose of ex- 

 travasated blood spots pericardium contained an excessive amount of straw 

 colored fluid." 



The treatment of such a disease as cholera, running so rapid a course 

 and with such violence, must be prompt and active. To wait a few days 

 to see whether any more birds take the trouble is giving yourself a hard, 

 discouraging season in which to get rid of the last case. The man who 

 is quick to see any change in appearance of his hens wiU early note danger 

 in the first few hours of cholera. At the first suggestion of a possible chol- 

 era case quarantine all doubted birds; at once scald or bake every drinking 

 dish; scald all food utensils, and clean up every house. In other words, 

 destroy every lurking germ that can cause future trouble. If the sick birds 

 can be kept by themselves so much the better. 



Add to each quart of drinking water for the sick birds spirits of camphor, 

 one teaspoonful, and one-fourth ounce of sulpho-oarbolate of zinc. The 

 sulpho-carbolate of zinc should be white in color. The more red it shows 

 the more impure and irritating it is. Much of the sulpho-carbolate offered 

 is not white and should be avoided for internal use. You will notice that 

 this salt of zinc is often suggested by me. I get much satisfaction from it, 

 as an internal antiseptic. For- drinking water for the apparently well birds, 

 add to every quart one-eighth ounce sulpho-carbolate of zinc. 



If the diarrhoea is excessive give a pill of "Dover's Powder," one grain 

 every two hours until the discharge lessens. The opium in the pill relieves 

 pain and quiets the muscular action of the bowels. The diet question is 

 difficult to solve. Anything bulky is out of the question, if indeed the bird 

 does not directly solve this by refusing to eat at aU. Higlily concentrated 

 food is needed to sustain life; something easily digested, and this require- 

 ment is best found in meat juice. One tablespoonful, every four hours, given 

 by means of a spoon or glass dropping tube, will help the case. The meat 



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