COMBATING ROUP.
Roup is a disease which is ever the bane of the poultry-keeper. Recently fanciers in the Old Country have been giving their views on the question, and the following remedies have been submitted as being cures for the trouble: — Divide the birds into separate runs. Cleanse the birds so affected with a mouth wash of weak solution of Condy's fluid. See that the runs, and especially the roosting quarters, are well disinfected. If the birds are each given a quarter of a teaspoonful of turpentine to which a few drops of carbolic acid are added, along with twice proportion of castor oil, it will in all probability prove essential. This is a simple and cheap remedy. Sulphate of copper is the best and cheapest remedy for stamping out diphtheritic roup—as much as will lie on a shilling to a gallon of water; half the strength for chicks, and twice the dose for bad cases in adults. This is the cheapest remedy, and be sure to get it pulverised, not crystals. The only way to stamp out diphtheritic roup is as follows: — the bad smelling, cheesy growths come to a head, when they will force open the beak. Then take a pointed piece of wood and cut out all the growth without making the bird bleed, and paint with a solution of nitrate of silver in the raw places. Next day remove any more growths and repeat the operation daily till no more growths appear. Ail the time roup pill should be given; there are many S°P d ones sold, so it is better to choose one of these than have the trouble and expense of having one's own made up, though, if one has a reliable formula, this might be done. The birds should be in comfortable quarters. All appliances used for the birds must be burned. Most birds will recover under this treatment if the disease does not spread to the throat.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 308, 2 November 1910, Page 6
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325COMBATING ROUP. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 308, 2 November 1910, Page 6
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