Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-04-07
IGbe Ga3ette an0 Gonlet.
From the Practical Farmer.l
Essay on Diseases, Of Poultry.
Road ct late meeting of the Am. Poultry Society
BYs. N. SAUNDERS, NEW YoRK.

M .. N. SAUNDERS, NEW YoRK.
It is our duty to study whatever
may tend to alleviate the sufferings
of domestic animals kept for our own
qualification, for they must not be
allowed to pine und die unaided.
Everything worth knowing, we
ought to know, and our knowledge
should be such as to render us equal
to all the emergencies OF poultry
sickness.
The diseases of poultry, being ia
ken in time, may not result in se-
rious malady, too often terminating
in death; but procrastination is gen.
orally as fatal in poultry keeping as
In anything else.
The ailments Of fowls may gem
orally be traced to variable tenn
perature, to irregular, injudicious
feeding. or to their being kept on
ground which has become impure
with their use Of it. Judicious feed
ing, perfect cleanliness, and occa-
sional removal to new ground, will,
to great extent, keep fowls healthy,
The following are the principal
diseases among them:
yApoplexy, evinced by inflammation
of the brain.
Tracheal Inflammation Tor gapes),
with parasitic worms in the wind
pipe.
Roup, which is highly infectious,
and very deadly disease, but if
taken in time can be cured The
premonitory symptoms are a slight
hoarseness and catching in the
breath as if from cold.
7r Moulting, with old fowls, is often
90 severe and so protected, that it
carries them of. The young are
also victims Of leg weakness and
bad feathering.
Sickly fowls should always be re-
moved from the fowl.house on the
first symptoms Of illness, as they are
generally ill-ussd by their compan-
ions, picked at, and evidently be-
come objects Of dislike.
Apoplexy with fowls, as with hui
man beings, is difficult to cure. It
is generally the result of high feel
ing. and is most common among lay
ing hens, which are sometimes found
dead on the nest--the expulsive ef-
forts required in laying being the
immediate cause of the attack.
The only hope for cure consists in
an instant and copious bleeding. by
opening vein with sharp-pointed
penknife or lancet. The largest of
the veins seen on the under side of
the wing should be selected and
opened in longitudinal direction,
not cut across, and SO long as the
thumb is pressed on the vein at any
point between the opening and the
body, 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 obtained from rain or impure
water. and if a certain preventive
not cure) is desired, the use of cam. |
ohor will be found most efficient.
A small lump, about the size of
peanut, kept constantly in the vessel
rom which the fowls drink, will
make gapes unknown in your yard.
Having carefully adopted this pre-
'aution this year more particularly,
nd having raised over two hundred
dickens without one case of gapes,
can testify that camphor is the
My certain remedy. My neighbcr.
Ar. T, who is also a member
t the American Poultry Society,
nd who has equal if not superior
dvantages to mine for poultry rear
lg, has lost three fourths Of his
hickens by gapes, which | attribute
, his use of rain water and non-use
camphor. @
Rain water will, after having
God some time, be found by ex-
nination under a microscope to con-
lin worms identical with those taken
ON the throat of a chicken suffer-
e from gapes.
Roup, if treated at the outset, may
) cured by feeding twice a day
it'll stale crusts of bread soaked in
rong ale. Dry housing and clean
ness are indispensable.
Fowls sometimes waste away
ithout any apparent disorder. In
ch cases teaspoonful Of cod liver
! per day will often be found
ost eficacious remedy.
Securing or diarrhea is caused by
9 too abundant use Of relaxing s
cd. Cayenne pepper, or chalk, or
'th, mixed with meal or boiled rice,