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October 11, 1010 
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Do You Know That Poor Results with 
Poultry Are Often Caused by In¬ 
testinal Worms? 
Of course you know what iutestinal 
worms will do to sheep, cattle and especial¬ 
ly to hogs. It always stunts or weakens 
them. Well, intestinal worms in poultry 
are just as common and just as hard on 
them as on hogs or any other animals. 
I guess even a heavy sight worse, because 
often the farmer does not realize it and 
lets it run, and because we are told to 
and often do give and should give our 
flocks a heavy feeding of meat or some 
kind of animal protein which is inducivc 
to such parasites. 
You can readily find these parasites by 
closely examining the droppings. You 
will often actually see them moving 
around if you examine fresh droppings, 
especially if you will take a stick or 
something and break them up. It is 
better to examine the droppings as soon 
ns made, because often the smaller va¬ 
rieties of worms will dry up and be very 
hard to find on old droppings. 
These worms may vary in size from a 
pinhead to as much as three inches in 
length, as there are many varieties. Some¬ 
times you will see hundreds in one drop¬ 
ping and other times very few. Some¬ 
times none at all, depending again on the 
kind of worms and the feed the birds are 
getting, or the period of growth of the 
worms. Even if you cau't find them at 
all and your flock is not doing well, give 
it the following dose. It can't hurt them 
even if they have no worms, and it will 
often do them good. 
Feed very lightly the evening feed of 
mash or scratch, whichever you give. It 
iaip’ht be well, especially if the flock is 
running loose, to miss this evening feed 
altogether. The next morning the flock 
should be hungry and they will relish the 
following mash. Either take your regu¬ 
lar mixture or mix up equal parts of 
bran, middlings, cornmeal, ground oats 
and meat scrap, and measure out what the 
flock will eat up clean in half an hour, 
make this less rather than more. Moisten 
this mash with water or preferably skim- 
milk or buttermilk, or whole milk, and add 
one teaspoonful of oil of American worm- 
seed (Jerusalem oak), and one teaspoon¬ 
ful of turpentine to every 25 growing 
birds or 12 adult birds. After this is 
well mixed, let it stand for 15 or 20 min¬ 
utes and then feed at the regular feeding 
time in the morning. Don’t give flock 
any other feed during the day, and repeat 
this dose at evening feed. The next morn¬ 
ing, give the flock six teaspoonfuls of 
epsom salts to 25 growing birds or 12 
adults, in the same amount of mash or in 
the drinking water. 
While treating the flock, it is much 
better, if possible, to keep them confined 
in the house or yard at least. It is a 
good plan to use slaked lime on the drop¬ 
ping hoards during the treatment and for 
a week afterward. A good application 
of lime on the yards will also do good. 
Buttermilk or sour milk in the ration 
will do much toward preventing another 
epidemic. 
VI CTOB G. AUBRY. 
Nervous Fowls 
Some time ago I noticed a hen that 
put her head back and fell over. Yester¬ 
day I saw that another one was getting 
the same way. They do not act sick, and 
are still laying, but will not go to roost. 
They are all right when nobody is around, 
but when I go in the yard they put their 
heads in the air and fall over. What is 
the cause and what can I give them to 
stop it? F. E. B. 
Melrose, Mass. 
These fowls showing some disturbance 
of the nervous system should be removed 
from the flock, given a cathartic dose of 
castor oil or salts, one to three teaspoon¬ 
fuls of the former or a heaping teaspoon- 
ful of the latter dissolved in a little 
water, and placed in a quiet, cool place 
where they may be fed upon soft food 
until recovery. If intestinal worms are 
suspected, and these appear at times to 
be the cause of the trouble, a teaspoonful 
of turpentine should be administered a 
short time before the cathartic is given. 
This is best done through a soft rubber 
catheter passed down into the bird’s crop. 
M. B. D. 
Ailing Turkey 
We have a hen turkey one year old 
which has something the matter with her 
head. It is swollen under both eyes and 
looks as though it might be full of water. 
The eyes water and there is a discharge 
from the nose. She eats fairly well and 
picks around, but looks rough. What is 
the trouble and is there any cure? 
New York. MBS. O. W. B. 
These symptoms are either those of sim¬ 
ple catarrhal inflammation or of roup, 
quite likely the latter, as the roughened 
plumage indicates more than a simple 
local disturbance. Roup is a contagious 
disease and one that does not yield readily 
to treatment. Affected birds are likely 
to live a long time, the severe symptoms 
subsiding in warm weather, only to re¬ 
appear with the damp, cold nights of the 
Fall. Various local applications have 
been recommended, but the difficulty of 
applying them and uncertainty as to re¬ 
sults do not encourage special treatment 
unless, possibly, in the case of fowls of 
more than ordinary value. Perhaps the 
most generally useful treatment has been 
with a solution of potassium permanga¬ 
nate in water. This is astringent and 
slightlv antiseptic and may be applied to 
the fowl’s eyes and nostrils by means 
of a small glass syringe or by dipping the 
whole head for a few seconds beneath tho 
surface of two to five per cent solution. 
Treatment should be repeated several 
times daily to be effective, hut, as indi¬ 
cated above, has not given results that 
warrant the expenditure of much valuable 
time over birds or ordinary value. 
ir. b. p. 
Preventing Dogs from Eating Eggs 
I have read several articles on puppies 
eating eggs in The R. N.-Y. and some 
ways of breaking them of it. I never 
saw any ways of preventing them from 
learning to eat eggs. When we get a 
puppy I never let it learn to eat eggs, 
so we never have any trouble. I make 
two or three dozen artificial eggs by 
breaking the eggs on the big end, pouring 
the egg out, and filling the shell with 
plaster of Paris. Dry a little, then 
round the big end a little until it is 
about the shape of an egg, then roll them 
in cayenne pepper and place them around 
the yard where the puppy goes. He soon 
finds they are no good for playthings. A 
puppy does not. eat eggs at first: he plays 
with them until he breaks them. He 
soon finds they are good to eat. I also 
use the unhatchable eggs which the hens 
have been sitting on. If I have any 
little egg gourds 1 use them. 
I sometimes place some around the 
hens’ nests. They will nut. touch them 
after they get their mouths burned with 
the pepper. _ Common black pepper does 
to sprinkle in front of the hen’s nest on 
the ground. _ Never put pepper in a nest; 
it will get in the hen’s eyes ; it. may get 
in her feathers and make her leave her 
nest. These artificial eggs can be washed 
oft and used for nest eggs. I never had 
any egg-eating hens since I have used 
these artificial eggs. I have heard some 
people say that the artificial egg in a 
nest will break the hen of eating eggs; 
that they will pick and pick until they 
discover they cannot get them broken, 
and quit picking. An egg-eating hen can 
be prevented from eating eggs if her nest 
is made in a nuil keg or a high box, too 
high for the hen to stand at the top 
and reach down into the nest, to eat her 
egg, and not- large enough to give her 
room to stand down in the nest. We used 
to break an egg and put cayenne pepper 
m to break the puppies of eating eggs. 
One day the thought, struck my mind 
that rolling an egg in cayenne pepper 
might be a good way to prevent puppies 
from playing with or eating eggs. I tried 
it and learned it was a complete success. 
Many eggs can be saved in this way. 
A farmer’s daughter. 
Gapes and Leg Weakness 
Can you tell me what ails my chickens? 
1 hey begin to gape and get leg weakness; 
<1° not know if they would die, as I kill 
and bury them after a few days as they 
get worse. They are April and May 
chickens, never were sick, and are a fine 
flock of about 50 Rhode Island Reds. 
They range all over the farm, no other 
stock near them. I feed corn, oats and 
scratch feed, good well water to drink. 
They eat well and those I have killed 
and buried were fut. Can you tell me 
what it. is ails them, and is there any 
preventive? m. a. j. 
Aew York. 
You give hardly enough particulars to 
enable one to make a positive diagnosis 
of the trouble affecting your chicks; gap¬ 
ing for breath is the most prominent 
symptom with gape-worms, while “leg 
weakness” is an affection but little under¬ 
stood, though often seen in chicks of any 
age. This leg weakness in growing pul¬ 
lets has recently been spoken of by writ¬ 
ers in New England Farms as due to in¬ 
festation with intestinal worms. Such 
worms in small numbers usually seem to 
do little harm to their hosts, hut, when 
occurring in large numbers, they may 
cause death from obstruction or other re¬ 
sult of their presence. If the observa¬ 
tions of these poultrymen are correctly 
interpreted and these worms are respon¬ 
sible for the frequently fatal “leg weak¬ 
ness” noted in growing chicks, much cred¬ 
it will he due to those who have reported 
them, as, knowiug the cause, measures of 
prevention can be taken. I would suggest 
that you open the windpipe of one or 
more of the dead chicks and examine the 
interior for small gape-worms attached to 
the lining membrane, and that you also 
examine the entire length of the intestinal 
tract for iutestinal worms. You may find 
here an explanation of the trouble. 
m. n. p. 
