CHOLERA TREATMENT.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 440, 17 February 1912, Page 3

CHOLERA TREATMENT.

This disease ia dealt with as follows in a bulletin issued by the Arizona Experimental Station:— Cholera is a di3ease dreaded by all poultry growers because it is very hard to check when once it gains a foothold. If often carries away a large part of the flock in a single week. The symptoms are dumpiness accompanied by diarrhoea, the excrement being greenish yellow in colour. The bird loses flesh rapidly and dies in a few days, unless treated. The disease is very contagious and is easily transmitted. AH sick birds should be removed at once and the pens and houses thoroughly disinfected witth five per cent, carbolic acid solution, chlorinated lime or some other disinfcetant. Whitewashing with a mixture containing ljlb of lime and 4 or 5 oz3 of crude carbolic acid to the gallon is very benecfiial, and will aid in keeping lice and other parasites in check. The droppings should be destoyed. The treatment is to feed the ailing birds with a bran mash mixed with hot milk and thickened with a little flour, so as to make the mash somewhat crumbly, rather than sloppy. To this mash add a tablespoonful each of sulphur, copperas, red pepper-cap3icum), and alum for each dozen birds. If they do not recover in 48 hours kill the sick birds and burn the carcases. Good, pure drinking water, a sufficient variety of wholesome food, and clean quarters are the principal points to be considered by the poultryman for the prevention of disease.