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Symptoms. In this condition the fowl is Hkely to walk 

 with seeming difficulty or limp. 



Treatment. To remove the cause lower the roosts or 

 provide plenty of litter on the floor. When the foot is 

 badly swollen, a small cut should be made with a clean 

 sharp knife and the pus removed. Wash the wound out 

 with equal parts of hydrogen peroxide and water. Grease 

 with vaseline and bandage with a strip of cloth. 



QUESTIONS 



1. What general preventives should be practiced in order to 

 prevent poultry diseases? 



2. Describe the symptoms for roup, together with an effective 

 treatment. Why is it so necessary to remove fowls that are af- 

 fected with such a disease as cholera, chicken pox, favus, roup, etc., 

 from the flock? 



3. Describe the method of treating chicken pox. 



4. What prevention and treatment should be practiced for white 

 diarrhea in chickens? 



5. Describe a method for treating chickens with gapes. 



6. How can feather pulling be overcome in a flock? 



7. Describe the method of treating fowls for scaly leg. 



8. What is usually the cause of rheumatism in poultry? 



9. Describe the cause and treatment for bumble foot. 



10. Describe the method of preparing a good internal antiseptic 

 that may be used in the drinking water to prevent such contagious 

 diseases as roup, white diarrhea, and cholera. 



SUGGESTIONS 



1. Form the habit of carefully observing the growing stock as 

 well as the producers at all times and remove immediately all birds 

 that appear to be listless or not inclined to be as active as the rest of 

 the flock. This practice is very important and can not be emphasized 

 too greatly. 



2. Keep in mind at all times that it is ordinarily not practical 

 to attempt to treat individual fowls that are sick. Such fowls, even 

 though they recover, ordinarily do not produce such results as will pay 

 for their feed, and under no circumstances should they be used in the 

 breeding pen. 



3. Should a disease or infection break out in your flock or those 

 of your neighbor's and you are unable to determine the nature or cause 

 of it, send a fowl or two so affected to your state college of agriculture 

 for diagnosis. 



REFERENCES 

 Diseases of Poultry, by Pearl, Surface, Curtiss. 

 Important Poultry Diseases, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' 

 Bulletin 957, by D. E. Salmon. 



