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the horn will then continue to grow to an increasing length, 

 and will, at the same time, become soft, brittle or flexible, 

 and, therefore, unfit for cracking hard grains. The only 

 remedies are: suitable nourishment, small doses of lime and 

 sand, and avoidance of soft food. 



Diseases Of the Feet. — If a bird's foot is neglected, 

 inflammation, suppuration, smaller and larger ulcers, will 

 easily form beneath the layer of dirt, and these may lead to 

 inflammation of the joints, to the decay of a toe, or even to 

 the loss of the whole foot. Timely bathing in warm water, 

 cooling the inflamed foot with lead water, brushing the 

 affected part daily with diluted glycerine, and afterwards 

 thickly powdering it with the finest starch meal or baby 

 powder, will produce a speedy recovery. In very obstinate 

 cases, the parts should be rubbed over with white-lead 

 ointment, the foot will then be placed into a small leather 

 bag, which will have to be firmly tied, because the salve is 

 poisonous for the bird. More serious are : 



Indurations, which produce either ulcers in the joints 

 (knots), or corns ; in the first case, the treatment will be as 

 above, but in every case the original cause is that the sitting- 

 poles are too thin, too hard, or otherwise inconvenient, and 

 must be removed ; and enlarged corns must be softened by 

 a vinegar poultice or by rubbing them with warm Provence 

 oil, then washed with warm water and soap, and carefully 

 peeled away with a small, sharp knife. If a sharp, tough 

 film has wound itself round the joint of the foot, and, by 

 cutting into the flesh, has produced inflammation and 

 suppuration, the film must be removed by means of sharp 

 pointed scissors (first cleansing as above), and the foot, 

 having been anointed with glycerine-salve, will heal of itself. 



Yellow Ulcerous Knots will, in consequence of 

 internal maladies, be formed at the legs, especially between 



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