CROP-BOUND POULTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3615, 30 January 1906, Page 4

CROP-BOUND POULTRY.

l»fc— a ttcmedr la Immediately Ap« »itad Vowl* So Afflicted Will Dl* Speedily.

Crop bound is especially prevalent Among fowls in clouts confinement, where in their desire to procure green food they consume large quantities of dry grass, and I have observed its being brought on in at least one case by sating tea leaves, the whole mass forming A hard lump in the crop, thus being Indigestible, causing the bird to dump, And unless a remedy is speedily applied, to die. In one of bur exchanges a writer given the following remedy: First, proI: #ure a piece of the smallest size rubber [, tube about 18 inches in length (this can r be obtained at any drug store); attach [* MW end to a small tunnel, grease the |l other with lard or vaseline for about I lour inches, and are ready for business. I Get An assistant to securely hold the sick [- bird, now carefully place tube in the I bird's mouth and push well down the I- crop, about four inches of tube will be I required, hold the tunnel slightly abov© I the fowl’s head and slowly pour in as I mush luke-warm water as the crop will I hold, about one teacupful. Have the K assistant work the crop carefully dur■r lag the process and until the hard mass K becomes softened. Great care should I I be taken' both in pouring water and I working crop lest the fowl become ■" ohoked by water rising in the throat. I. Next grasp the bird by the legs and. hold! I heed down, gently working crop to asI slst bird to vomit. In most cases one

[ trial I? enough to completely empty the k crop, but in case it is not, let the fowl w»t for half an hcmr and repeat the process. This remedy haa also been. ' used by me very successfully in cases " of aoute indigestion. Keep the bird on •oft food with plenty of sharp grit and •barcoal for a few days atud the cure is •omplet*.