T^c RURAL NEW-YORKER 
569 
THE HENYARD 
Roup 
I purchased from a hatchery some 
chicks last August. They grew rapidly 
and did very well until within the last 10 
days I noticed some of them were lame. 
Some recovered; others continued lame, 
getting so bad they could not walk at all, 
but sat huddled on one spot, then became 
blind in both eyes and constantly gaped, 
as if gasping for air. I kept one in a 
box for several days, putting food into 
her bill, feeding her water with a spoon 
and washing her eyes with warm water, 
and finally* was obliged to kill her. I 
have another now apparently not lame, 
but blind and constantly gaping and 
twisting its neck about. There is no odor 
nor discharge from the nostrils to indi¬ 
cate roup, but when I try to open eye a 
thick discharge appeared, but the eye did 
not open after the discharge was re¬ 
moved. Is there anything I can do to re¬ 
lieve it of its gaping and blindness, or is 
it hopeless, and what is the cause of the 
trouble? h. m. e. 
New Jersey. 
I presume that you will find, upon ex¬ 
amination, that there is a fungus growth 
at the entrance to the windpipe that is 
obstructing the passage of air and caus¬ 
ing the gaping for breath. You may also 
find “cankers” of like nature in the mouth 
of the affected bird. This and the con¬ 
dition of the eyes I take to be the result 
of roup, even though there is no discharge 
from the nostrils. Roup varies in its 
symptoms, not always showing the typ¬ 
ical foul-smelling discharge for which 
many look to confirm their diagnosis. 
Where birds are so badly affected as 
those you describe, I doubt if you will 
find any treatment of value, though I 
should open the mouth of any bird gasp¬ 
ing for air and. if a growth at the en¬ 
trance of the windpipe could be discov¬ 
ered. should try to remove it by careful 
use of a sliver of wood, or similar instru¬ 
ment. It goes without saying that you 
should remove all affected fowls from 
your flock, clean up and disinfect utensils 
and place the quarters in as good condi¬ 
tion from a hygienic standpoint as pos¬ 
sible. Quite likely these quarters have 
been allowed to become damp and musty 
from insufficient ventilation during the 
cold weather. M. B. d. 
Paralyzed Pullet 
What can be done for a valuable pullet 
(It. I. Red) that seemingly has paralyzed 
legs? She cannot stand at all, and can 
just slightly twitch her toes. g. s. 
The cause or causes of such apparent 
paralysis of the legs in pullets and cock¬ 
erels are not understood, and I do not 
know of any treatment of certain value. 
I should administer a physic, castor oil 
or Epsom salts, to any fowl showing this 
trouble, two teaspoons of the former or 
a small teaspoonful of the latter, dis¬ 
solving the salts in a little water and 
wasting as little of the castor oil upon 
the outside of the fowl’s neck as need be. 
If intestinal worms are the cause of the 
trouble, as it i.s thought that they some¬ 
times are, a teaspoonful of spirits of tur¬ 
pentine may be mixed with an equal 
amount of oil and administered. After 
such a physic, affected birds sometimes 
recover the use of their legs, and no harm 
can be done, at any rate. m. b. d. 
Hen with Tumor 
I am sending you a tumor I cut off the 
wing of a White Leghorn hen. It was 
on the outer joint of the wing. The hen 
was in good condition except for this 
growth. What is the cause and cure? I 
cut it off with my knife and seared the 
wound with hot iron. The hen is weak 
from loss of blood, but I believe she will 
pull through. D. s. 
The exact nature of such a tumor can¬ 
not be ascertained without microscopic 
examination with all the facilities of a 
laboratory equipped for that purpose. 
They may be generally classed as fleshy 
tumors, usually of no serious import. Re¬ 
moval in a humane manner may be at¬ 
tempted if any treatment is desired, or, 
if the bird gives no evidence of inconveni¬ 
ence from the tumor, it may be left to 
itself without harm. m. b. d. 
66 
Raising the Chicks 
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99 
A Catastrophe to Mrs. Hetherington’s Brood that 
Proved a Blessing in Disguise 
[By William R. Durgin] 
M Y STORY has a hap¬ 
py ending,” were 
Mrs. Hetherington’s first 
words to me when I called 
to get the interesting in¬ 
formation set forth here. 
“But I’ll never forget that 
morning last April when I 
went out to the chicken 
house and found the earth 
strewn with the bodies of our 
poor little baby chicks. 
I went to bed the night be- 
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fore counting on a lot of 
things the chicken money 
was. going to buy for 
Christmas; I awoke to see 
practically eleven hun¬ 
dred chicks either dead 
or dying, or on the sick- 
list from bowel trouble. 
I managed the breakfast 
somehow, 
but when I 
was alone 
later I did 
what any 
woman 
who loved 
those fluf¬ 
fy little 
babychicks 
would have 
done — I 
cried for 
one hour. 
Then I did 
alittlecalm 
thinki ng. 
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growing community with expenses to 
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Ever since I had kept 
chickens there were some 
baby chicks lost. No one 
can raise them all, but I 
realized that I had been 
losing more chicks than 
there was any need to; I 
knew others who never 
had such losses. A friend’s 
flocks had developed 
bowel trouble and dia¬ 
rrhea, too, a year back, 
but they didn’t lose over 
two dozen chicks at that. 
Our chickens were all a 
good strain, they had 
warm, comfortable and 
clean quarters; so I had 
to conclude that it was 
their feed that was wrong. 
I hated to admit this, be¬ 
cause I had always given 
a lot of time and care to 
their food. I prepared it 
myself, and I put all the 
good things that money 
could buy into the mash 
for those baby chicks. 
When my husband 
brought home the corn 
meal and middlings I 
was always asking him 
to fetch, he used to say 
that no one else in the 
county pampered the 
young chicks like I did. 
“The following day I 
saw a woman at the store 
order a bag of ready pre¬ 
pared food for chicks. 
Naturally I had heard of 
such foods and I knew 
there were lots of folks 
who used them, but I 
had somehow set down 
this practice as being 
lazy — and rather ex¬ 
travagant. But I asked 
about it and I was told 
some things that I had 
never realized about 
chicks and their first 
twenty days of life. My 
next^ hatching of chicks 
had ‘store food’ for their 
very first meal and all the 
feedings that followed. 
And this is what hap¬ 
pened: 
Amazing Results From 
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“I took new interest in 
raising chickens from the 
day I started the chicks 
on the new food. What¬ 
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ideal for tiny birds. How 
greedily they went after 
it! I gave it first about 
forty-eight hours after 
the hatch. I simply drop- 
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serious disease among 
the youngsters of our 
flocks since using the 
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when a few chicks do ail, 
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doubt to the betterchance 
a remedy has with chicks 
that are strong-bodied. 
White diarrhea threat¬ 
ened our brood a few 
months ago and we got 
busy and where I once 
would have expected to 
lose a hundred chicks or 
so, exactly four died.” 
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