The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-11-07
Essay on Diseases Of Poultry.

Essay on Diseases Of Poultry.
Read at the last mcc,i nw Of Amer lean Poultry
/ Society, by = NJ. Saunders.
/ 1t is our duty to study whatever may
tend to alleviate the sufierings Of domea-
tic animals kept for our own gratifica-
! ton, for they must not be allowed to
pine and die unaided.
! Everything worth knowing, we ought
to know, and our knowledge should be
such as would render us equal to all tho
emergencies of poultry sickness.
! The diseases of poultry, being taken
in time, may not result in a serious mall
ady, too often resulting in death; but
=, procrastiration Is generally as fatal In
poultry keeping rs in anything else.
The aiimcnt of fowls may generally be
traced to a variable temperature, to ir-
regular, iniudicious feeding or to their
/ being kept on ground which has become
! impure with their Use Of it. Judicious
feeding, perfect cleanliness, and occa-
sional removal to new ground will, to q
great extent, keep fowls healthy.
| The following are the principal dis.
eases among them:
ApopleNy, evidenced by inflammation
of the brain.
Tracheal Inflammation (or gupcs) with
parasitic worms in the windpipe.
Roup, which i, highly infections, and
a very deadly disease, but if taken in
time can he cured The prcmonitory
symptoms are slight hoarseness, and
catch in the breath, rs if from cold.
Moulting, with old fowls, is often SO
severe and so protracted that it carries
them of. The young are also victims
of leg weakness and bad feathering.
Sickly fowls should always be removed
from the fowl house on the first symptom
of illness, rs they are generally i'll used
by their companions-pecked at, and
evidently become objects of dislike.
ApopleXy with fowls, rs in human
beings, is difficult to cure. .Itis general
~ the result of high feeding, and is most
common among laying hens, which are
sometimes found dead on the nest-the
eNpulsivc efforts required in laying be-
ing the immediate cause Of the attack
The only hope for cure consists In an
instant and copious bleeding, by OPEN
ing vein with a sharp-pointcd penknife
or lancet. The largest of the veins seen
on the under.si side Of the wing, should he
selected, and opened in a longitudinal
direction, not cut across, and so long as
the thumb is pressed on the vein at any
hot w ,. Nd E~... Il
the blood will be found to flow freely
Light food and rest should be given the
bird after the operation.
Gapes, in nine cases out Of ten, are OBJ
tanned from rain or impure water, and II
certain preventive DOT curc) is desired,
the use Of eamphor will be found the
most efficient remedy. \ small lump,
about the size OF peanut, kept constant
~ in the vessel from which they drink.
viii make gapes unknown in your yard.
Having carefully adopted this precau-
ton this year more particularly, and
having raised overt two hundred chick
ems, without one case of gapcs, can tes-
tlfy that camphor is the only centain
remedy. My noiglfbof, Mr.. Tt, who
Is also member of the American Poul-
try Society, and who has equal, if not
superior advantages to mine for poultry
rearing, has lost threc-fourths of his
: chickens by gapcs, which attribute to
his use of rain watcrand non use of cam
phor.
Rain water will, after having stood
some time, be found, by examination
under microscope, to contain worms
, identical with those taken from the
, throat or a chicken suffering from rapes
Roup, if treated at the outset, may be
, cured by feeding, twice day, with stale
crusts of breat soaked in stroneac Dry
T housing and cleanliness are indispens-
able
Fowls sometimes waste away without
any apparent disorder. In such cases a
, teaspooniul OF cod-liver oil per day will
often be found Il most cf1icacious remedy.
: Securing, or diarrhoa, is caused by
the too abundant use of relaxing food,
. cayenne pepper, or chalk, or both,
, mixed with meal or boiled rice, check
. the complaint
, Leg weakness is generally caused by
the size and weight of the body being
f more than the legs can bear 1t il
shown by the bird resting on the first
| JOINT. Being entirely the result Of
| weakness, tie best treatment is that
+, which gives general strength and stam-
ina to the sufferer. Tincturc Of iron
say i've drops to saucer of water, must
r lie Siven.-CouRhY Gcmlemoa. -.s
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