ONE THOUSAND SECRETS REVEALED

52 ONE THOUSAND SECRETS REVEALED.
Vertigo.=^Like apoplexy, is caused by over feeding and lack of
exercise. The fowl runs in a circle with but partial control of the
limbs.
Remedy. Hold the head of the bird under a stream of cold
water. Give ten grains of jalap and reduce the amount of feed.
Crop-Bound. Is caused by irregular feeding- A hungry bird
fills his crop to such a degree that the contents, when moistened, be
comes .a dense compact mass.
Remedy. Puncture the upper part of the crop, loosen the mass
by degrees, with a blunt instrument. If the incision is large, sew up
the slit and feed the bird soft food for ten days.
Diarrhoea. Remedy.' Five grains powdered chalk, 5 grains tur
key rhubarb, 5 grains cayenne pepper.
Roup. This is a very contagious disease. The well fowls should
immediately be separated from the sick ones, and the old quarters
thoroughly disinfected. Use the following remedy. One-half ounce
balsam copaiba, one-quarter ounce liquorice powder, one-half drachm
piperine. This is enough for thirty doses- Enclose each dose in a
small capsule; give two or three doses per day. If this does not
furnish relief in two days, kill the fowl and burn or bury it.
The symptoms of this disease are first, a thick opaque and pecu
liarly offensive smelling discharge from the nostrils. Froth appears
at the inner corner of the eyes, the lids swell and often the eyes are
entirely closed; the sides of the face become much swollen, and the
bird rapidly declines and dies.
Gapes. Is caused by parasitic worms in the wind pipe, or from
a small tick-like parasite lodged on the head of the chicken when
between two and four months old. Examine the head of the bird,
with a pocket lens, and if the parasite is found, destroy them with the
following: One ounce mercurial ointment, one-half ounce petroleum
(crude), one-half ounce flower of sulphur. Mix by heating, and apply
when just warm.
When gapes is caused by worms in the wind pipe, use spirits of
turpentine, it is applied by dipping the end of a feather in the turpen
tine, then inserting it in the bird's mouth at the root of the tongue;
generally one operation is all that is required.
To prevent and cure chicken cholera, renovate the coops thor
oughly then saturate the apartments with kerosene oil. Then grease
the chicken under the wings and wherever the feathers are off, use
the formula mentioned for gapes when caused by parasite (on the
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head), repeat the greasing process in two weeks, then once a month
until the time of heavy frost in the fall.
The following is an elegant internal treatment. Dissolve four
ounces of hyposulphate of soda in one gallon of water and add
corn meal to make a heavy dough, and give an ordinary feed of this
twice a day for six days, and then once a week through the summer
months. In severe cases give one teaspoonful of the water (with
out meal) three or four times a day until out of danger. This is the
best known remedy for chicken cholera.
Poultry Lousiness. Appears only in poorly kept fowls. Sprin
kle the fowls and nests with Scotch snuff or flower of sulphur. In
addition thoroughly cleanse the hen house and coop with a solution of
four pounds of potash to a gallon of water or with strong soap suds.