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intestine, It contains the substance 
’ which aids digestion, thus completing 
the assimilation of the food, the portion 
retained going to nourish the system, the 
waste material passing on to the large 
intestine, then conveyed to the clocs, — 
and ejected as droppings. 
Diarrhoea, or looseness of the bowels in 
fowls, is brought on by some irritating 
matter, such as sour and unwholesome 
food or exposure, cold, wet weather, and 
other causes. — 
The symptoms are excessive discharge 
fromm the bowels. 
Diarrhoea is responsible for very great 
mortality among chickens, some poultry- 
keepers losing a greater number from 
this cause than from any other chicken 
ailment. 
In America of late years a chicken 
disease, termed “White Diarrheea,” has. 
become prevalent, and has baffled the 
best poultry doctors in that country. It 
_ is, however, confined to incubator-hatched 
chickens, not due to that cause, but to » 
something not yet understood in artificial 
rearing; and,as the chicks are only a 
week or two old when attacked, it is quite 
conceivable the difficulty in curing intes- 
tinal disarrangements at such an early 
‘ago. But even in this country, where - 
artificial incubation is less general than in 
America, the trouble ig experienced, while 
those hen-hatched and reared are some- 
~ times victims, 
Rundle St.,tdelaide 
The existance of diarrhce, in adult 
fowls is usually due to the presence of 
- some foreign, fetid, or irritant matter in 
the intestines, and to get rid of that is 
to usually cure the complaint ‘The first 
treatment should be a teaspoonful of 
salad oil, sweet oil, or a rather smaller 
quantity of castor-oil, or a dose, about 25 
grains, of Epsom salts. Boiled rice into 
which some powdered chalk has been 
mixed, should be given a few hours after 
the purgative, and, if not affective, pills 
made of 4 grains of prepared chalk, 4 
grains of rhubarb, and one grain of opium 
should be given. 
Lewis Wright quotes 5 grains chalk, 5 
grains rhubarb, and 3 grains cayenne—a 
pill given morning and night. 4 
Rhubarb pills can be purchased at any 
chemist’s, which will often be effective in 
arresting the complaint. 
I have cured a number of cases with 
pills made of powdered chalk and lard 
only, 
Camphorated spirits is another useful 
remedy. The safest way is to make a 
pill of ordinary bread, and work about 10 
drops of spirit into it. A little alum in 
the drinking water is also useful 
Sometimes a case of simple diarrhoea 
may have developed into dysen try before 
the poultry-keeper is aware of any 
ailment In such cases the odds are 
- against the birds, the best remedies to 
try being a dose of castor-oil, followed 
by 5 drops of laudanum every threo 
hours 
_ Dr Collis Brown’s chlorodyne, in small 
doses, has also proved effective 
What is known as chalky or white 
diarrhoea in young chickens has baffled | 
the most prominent investigators in 
America Dr Woodroff Hill, in his*Dis- 
eases of Poultry, says:—The causes of 
diarrhoea in poultry are much the same 
as those affecting other creatures, and 
may be invariably traced (apart from 
constitutional disease) to injudicious 
dietary arrangement - 
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