PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



Treatment: Isolate affected fowls and disinfect premises. Use two 

 per cent solution of creolin, or a strong solution of copperas. Scatter 

 lime about the roosting places. Give a teaspoonful of castor oil to 

 chickens, and double the dose for turkeys and geese. Follow the oil 

 with a capsule of Formula No. 1. 



Coccidial Diarrhea attacks baby chicks and resembles white diar- 

 rhea. A whole brood becomes infected, probably in the incubator. 

 Infected broods should be isolated from other chicks. The sick chicks 

 should be removed from the brood and destroyed as observed. The 

 brooder room should be thoroughly disinfected with a solution of cop- 

 peras and fresh litter supplied frequently. A teaspoonful of castor oil 

 in a quart of warm m'lk should be given to drink in the forenoon and 

 about two grains of copperas in a quart of water in the afternoon. 



Showing full size gape worm. Also section of 

 trachea with worms attached 



Air-Sac Mite, Cytodites nudus, crawls through the nostrils and 

 attacks the bronchi and air sacs of the body. When present in large 

 numbers it produces stupor, emaciation, suffocation and death. The 

 infestation will go through a whole flock unless checked. Give sulphur 

 in the food and keep the premises disinfected. 



Gapes. The gape worm, Syngamus trachealis, is especially fatal t,o 

 young chicks. The eggs are obtained from infected soil, from earth 



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