HINTS ON POULTRY KEEPING

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 468, 30 September 1919, Page 2

HINTS ON POULTRY KEEPING

Health and Disease

BY "ONWARD " Crop bound may be a distressing condition in a fowl, arising from swallowing a bone or some other hard and indigestible substance, giving rise to obstruction. It is more an accident than a disease, and may need a simple operation for its relief. First try pouring warm water down tho throat, with patient and continuous kneading of the crop. If this does not afford the requisite relief make a careful incision near the top of the crop, about an inch long, and remove the contents gently with a small spoon, stitching up the wound nicely with a glover's needle and horsehair, the atitceing «.f the outer skin crossing that securing the inner membrane.

DSi.rrAfiEs tor Mocr.mr, tsirds Mix three-quarters in weight of oatmeal to a quarter of bran, and pour over boiling water. A little chopped meat may be given if in small quanties. Leave to swell near the fire, or in an oven for half an hour, and mix with equal quantities of pollard and pea meal, or split peas boiled soft. Hemp seed may be given two or three times a week, and buckwheat is also a very good tonic in the water, and often helps. A little Epsom salts, or a teaspoonful of tincture of iron will do as well. DISEASES 01 POULTRY. Abortion.—lf a hon gets dropping lior oggs about ofton shelless and moves continually, fasten her up awhile alone in a pon with a nest in a cornor. Give her soft food, with a little bi-carbonato of soda in her drinking water. She may havo been chased about by a spiteful "gamey" hen, or persecuted by odo of the opposite sax. Canker symptoms, ulcerations about head and eyes, watering first, then thicker and foetid.—Fluid carbolate with lead lotion will effect a cure.

Consumption, or going light, is a wasting disease which can rarely be arrested, but hypophosphates in the food and cod liver oil in the meal, or with quinine in capsules may overcome the tendency if treatment be commenced earl}' enough. Debility—Raw eggs down the throat two or three times a day, cooked lean moat, chemical food, cod liver oil a teaspoonful twice a day. Such generous treatment may save the life of a costly and valuable bird. Others so affected should be destroyed. Egg-bound—Generally an aperient will rectify this, but chopped groundsel rolled in butter is recommended, and an olive oil injection, or the passing of a feather (sweet or linseed oil will serve) up the vent and round the egg will often be found to be helpful. Pale yoke in oggs.—Always points to lack of sufficient green food. Litlnro, silver loot, etc, givon at intervals will overcome any shortage of greeen food in tho poultry run. (Continued next Tuesday.)