RELIABLE POULTRY REMEDIES 



the return to rational foods must be the first step. Make the mash as 

 largely of cut clover as you can get the bird to take. Drop out much of 

 the flour and cornmeal. Better feed green cut bone or fresh meat, than 

 dry meal, for a month. Give the fowls as scratching material the waste 

 from the hay mows. If the cases appear in warm weather give the birds 

 access to a clean grass run. 



At the first appearance of' liver trouble give each bird a teaspoonful 

 of castor oil. If this is not easy for you to do, the next best plan will be 

 to get the same results by adding one-half teaspoonful sulphate magnesia 

 to the drinking water of each bird. If the birds are not thirsty, you must 

 give it from a spoon or a dropping tube. After a single dose of laxative 

 medicine I should refrain from further medication and depend upon proper 

 food and care. 



Dr. J. Woodroffe Hill recommends the following treatment: "Ten 

 grains each of sulphate magnesia and bicarbonate of soda daily, until four 

 or five doses have been given; afterwards a little powdered gentian should 

 be mixed with the food, and a few spots of nitrohydrochloric acid mixed in 

 the drinking water. A plain diet should be allowed, aleo exercise." 



INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER 



The symptoms of this stage follow those of congestion of the liver. 

 The diarrhoea is watery and yellow, poor appetite, and increased desire 

 for water. There is a sluggish manner in breathing, suggesting lowered 

 vitality. The birds show Uttle inclination to move about; lose weight rapid- 

 ly; becoming little more than skin and bones in the course of two to three 

 weeks. 



Treat these cases, if at all, by clearing out the bowels once with castor 

 oil or sulphate of magnesia, following this, by the use of tincture of nux 

 vomica one-fourth teaspoonful to every pint of drinking water given the 

 birds. 



Dr. Hill gives the following: 



"Symptoms — Tenderness on external pressure, sometimes enlarge- 

 ment of the abdomen, great depression, bilious diarrhoea or dysentery, 

 quickened breathing, rapid emaciation, yellow hue of skin, thirst, loss of 

 appetite. Not unfrequently lameness in the right leg is manifested. 



"Treatment — HaK a grain each of calomel and opium, repeated in six 

 hours, and followed by ten grain doses of tartrate of potash morning and 

 night. Diarrhoea or dysentery to be checked with astringents; breaat 

 and abdomen to be held over hot stream; acidulated water to drink, as in 

 the preceding disease. The birds should be kept perfectly quiet, and fed 

 sparingly with bread soaked in milk or lime-water, or boiled rice." 



HYPERTROPHY OF THE LIVER 



An overlarge or soUd liver is most common in the late winter or early 

 spring months, especially in hens completing their second year. This 

 result is due to the constant over-feeding of heat producing foods to the 



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