HINTS ON POULTRY KEEPING

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 8, Issue 472, 14 October 1919, Page 1

HINTS ON POULTRY KEEPING

1 Diseases of Poultry BY " ONWARD " , (Continued). < Cholera - Chicken cholera is a deadly disease, commencing with a greenish discharge, later on becom-' ing white and watery an<V accompanied by excessive thirst. Isolate in the thade, <1 i^infeet tlie water 1 trough, and rfplenish often clean and quite clean water, giving fresh' green food find *nnl! doses of cholera mixtme from th. chf-tnia's Black Rot. P'ackoning of comb, feet and Ipu; v ''inemaciation. stimulating food, liibbint: carbolised vaseline in',) com' l ard lugs.

Diphtheria is a form of canker with int'roal nice ali->;i Isolate at once, give an upci'mnt, feed on unpeppered soft food, dress the interior eores with a came! hair brush, dipped in carbolic and sulphurous acid in iron tincture and glyc trine, and dust the exterior ulcers after cleaning with iodoform A little brandy fn the food may help, but it is only worth while taking this trouble with very valuable fowls.

Roup —This complaint occasions more mortality in the poultry yard than all other ailments combined. It commences from a common cold, and is highly contagious A bird attacked with the pye and nostrils running, characteriwtic of tins disease, must bo shut away from the rout at once, and everything it has been in contact with, disinfected. If the roup rattle in the throat has begun before detection there will be small chance of saving the biid. Pellets of meal with pepper in them may be forced down the throat two or three times a day to keep it from sinking, and a little tincture of aconite given in small pilules. Give a jalap aperient, and put camphor m the drinking water. Persevere for a while if it be a good biid, but your chance of saving it is very small. Worms in the intestines irritate and put fowls out of health. They should be eradicated by turpentine pills or santonin, followed by an aperient Neglect of treatment may lead to serious trouble arid remits E'ephantissis or scaly 1. gs attacks the fowls with large an". < oar.-e scales on the shanks chit lly, and may be contribute! toby Mellon cponure to very cold weather and wot ground I ! take,-, the form of unnghtly scurf and nnuuM.ttioi. t,f legs and fi-et .'.ml is very contagious. Curable only in the onset stage the treatment is carbohsed oil or glycerine ointment, after scruM>ng with soap and tepid water with weak sugar of led as a last, resort. Tin l birds should bo k' p' on dry and given stimulant food. Cramp is caused by exposure to damp, or running over saturated ground. J?< nvive the fowl ro a dry warm house, witn boatded lloor strawed or moss li tered, plunging the legs first into v. nrin mustard and water for a few minute*. and drying well. This m r.-p.vt'o.l <•«:«• «s----ionally until impvi>v<-!ii.'nt ii.-howa. Eruptions usuaily ari-o i' om confinement and n iici"an i iiicss. Give plenty of green food, especially

chopped dandelions Put powdered sulphur in the soft food, and the aft"cted parts with carbolised vaselino. (Constant scratching of the hnad is a sympton. pip—A hard and homy appearance of the end of the tongue in fowls and chickens is generally nothing mor« than the result of nasal obstruction. Give an aperient, put in a warm place, blted properly, and apply a little chlorinated soda to the tongue (Concluded next week.)