Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-08-16
CHICKEN CHOLERA.

CHICKEN CHOLERA. /
4 Number 81 Recipes Or the Treatnsae
Il Saek Fovls.
The disease must be made out be.
fore death, rather from its sudden.
epidemic character than any thing
else 1t comes suddenly in some cases;
q fowl well to-day may be dead to-mor-
row. and whole fock may be thus
rapidly carried of.
The discharges are thought by some
authorities to be decisive. They are
mild at first. are acknowledgment. "or
like sulphur and water" becoming
thinner. greener and more frothy as
the disease goes on. and never stopping
until the fowl is dead. 1.-The breath
ing becomes heavy and fast, the crop
fills with mucus and wind; at last the
food is not digested, the eyes close. and
in q few hours the fowl dies
There is weakness, sometimes exc
treme. at the commencement of the
disease; the fowl may even be unable
to stand well. 1t does not plume itself,
and has general sleepy, moping APP
pearance. At later period. the dark.
thickened blood may turn the comb
and wattles dark. or may not readily
flow through them, so they become
pale.
There is much fever, great thirst
and rapid, weak pulse. Cramps may
occur.
The fowl may ole from the digestive
disturbances, or apparently from
paralysis OF the heart or lungs, caused
by the poisoned blood.
You can not save the lives of all
those attacked, neither will the same
treatment that is good in the North
succeed in the South. Remove your
whole flock at once to clean quarters,i If
possible to some gravelly site that has
never been used before for stock, an6
see that they are habitually housed
there and in all regards in healthful
condition. Separate the sick from the
well, and, if it were possible, it would
be we'll to have every hen, especially
every sick hen. have a place apart.
This is practicable enough with some
valuable pets.
The following is the treatment of
sick fowls recommended in the valu-
able treatise of DR.. Dickie: Fowls
that are too sick to eat should have
every four or i've hours pill made as
follows: Blue mass. 60 grains; pulver-
lied camphor. 25 grains; cayenne pep
per, 30 grains; pulverized rhubarb. 48
grains; laudanum. GO drops. Mix and
make into twenty pills. When they
have had time to act. give half tea
spoonful of castor oil and ten drops of
laudanum to each. Let them drink
scalded sour milk, with a gill of Doug
lass Mixture. for every twenty-five
head day. The treatment ought to
change the character of the evacua-
lions and make them darker and NOR
solid. When this happens, and not be-
fore, give them alum water or strong
white-Oak bark tea to drink. and no
other drink. This will tend to check the
discharges
E. o. b., of Penn Yam, speaks well
Of the following recipe: Powdered
garlic, ounce; aromatic tincture of
rhubarb Tor the common tincture). 1-2
ounce; tincture capsicum, drachms;
tincture of camphOr, 9 drachms; tine
ture of oil of peppermint. 8 drachms;
tincture of opium. drachm. Mix and
shake. until the powdered garlic is
thoroughly suspended. Dose. six to
eight drops in teaspoonful of water
three times day.
Some other recipes are a tablespoon
full of mixture of equal parts of red
pepper. alum. resin and sulphur. in
three pints of scalded meal daily; or
two tablespOonfuls epson salts, four of
lime and ten drops of tincture of iron
in gallon of meal. A simple treat
ment. but OF doubtful efficacy, is to con-
fine the fowls to flour and water made
into stiff paste.
For the well fowls. and those not
very sick. DR.. Dickie recommends a
feed of warm, boiled potatoes. mashed
with bran, or wheat. or oatmeal, or
barley meal and sour milk, mixed with
little bicarbonate of soda and pulver-
lied charcoal.
Petroleum is much praised, and is
very well worth trying; mix some drops
of it with the feed.-POuitry World.