PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



Treatment: Disease generally fatal. There is no remedy. Put birds 

 in comfortable quarters and give a good tonic. 



Congestion of Brain — Vertigo. Causes: Fright, excitement, blow 

 on head, intestinal worms, indigestion. 



Symptoms: There is a rush of blood to brain, fowl staggers, moves 

 in a circle, walks backward and turns the head backward. 



Treatment: Give teaspoonful of Epsom salts in water. Remove the 

 cause. 



Pericarditis. Cause: Exposure to cold and dampness. 



Symptoms: Inflammation accompanied with dropsy of the heart sac; 

 weakness and difficult breathing. 



Treatment: Remove causes and give four grains of carbonate of 

 soda. Endocarditis is an inflammation of the inner membrane of the 

 heart and should have similar treatment. 



Rheumatism. Cause: Dampness and cold drafts. 

 Symptoms: Lameness, swellings and inflammation of joints. 

 Treatment: Remove affected birds to dry room with board floor. 

 Correct conditions in poultry house. 



V. Affections caused by poisons 



Ptomaine Poisoning. Cause: Eating decayed animal or vegetable 

 food. 



Symptoms: Lack of control of the muscles. Comb becomes black, 

 occasional diarrhea; prostration and limber neck; head turning toward 

 breast. 



Treatment: A teaspoonful of castor oil in warm milk; or a level 

 teaspoonful of Epsom salts in water. Follow with tonic found in formula 

 No. 1. , 



Limbemeck. Cause: Eating the maggots of the green bottle fly, 

 Lucilius Caesar; probably also caused by eating decayed matter and the 

 flesh of fowls that have died of the disease. It is also associated with 

 intestinal worms. 



Symptoms: This is not a contagious disease, but is considered a 

 symptom of other diseases. Head hung down between feet, and there 

 are convulsions in which the neck is twisted in different positions. 

 When the head is turned backward and twisted and lies upon the back 

 the affection is called wry-neck. 



Treatment: Blair recommends giving equal parts of oil of tur- 

 pentine and sweet oil, one teaspoonful at dose. Follow this in a half 

 hour with all the sweet milk the fowl can drink. Pure lard, a table- 

 spoonful melted and poured down the throat, will sometimes effect a 

 cure. 



Salt Poisoning. Salt is a valuable food. Used in ej^cess it is a fatal 

 poison. Convulsions, prostration, and diarrhea are symptoms. Milk 

 is indicated as a remedy. 



Arsenic Poisoning. Fowls contract arsenic poisoning accidentally 

 from rat poisons and arsenical sprays. The symptoms are choking, 

 excessive secretion of saliva, difficult breathing, unsteady walk, con- 



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