The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-01-19
CHICKEN CHOLERA.
Cleanliness the Only Means by which 1t
Spread Can BE Prevented.

Cleanliness the Only Means by Which Its
Spread Can BE Prevented.
The disastrous disease known as
cholera is one of the most certainly and
speedily fatal of all ills that chicken
flesh is heir to. The fowl when at
acked becomes weak and dropping,
with disheveled plumage, high fever
and diarrhea with green droppings-
When cholera enters the flock, and no
precautions are used to prevent its
spread. it is likely to make clean
sweep. You may hear of many "cholera
cures" and perhaps see a number of
them offered to the public, but it is a
waste of time and fowls to doctor"
them. Loss from this source, however,
can be cut down ninety per cent by
| turning attention to preventives in
stead of cures. The only means by
which / ever got ahead of chicken
cholera was cleanliness; clean houses,
| clean roosts, clean yards clean stables,
lean hog pens and clean every thing.
While this is preventive of cholera in
fowls, it also pays in a general way.
Every poultry house should be con-
structed so that the droppings of the
fowls may be removed daily. A plat
form two feet wide should be erected
some two feet from the floor TO receivd
these droppings. The roost pole
should not be higher than ten inches
above the platform, No droppings
should be allowed to reach the floor.
and il found should be removed at
once. All poultry houses should have
good board floor, which should be
swept at least twice week as clean as
kitchen. Air-slacked lime is one of
the best agents in keeping everything
sweet and clean. The platform should
be sprinkled with it every day immedi-
ately after the droppings are removed.
The floor should also be busted with
lime after being swept out. White
washing inside and ont should be done
three or four times during the sum-
mer. There are several kinds of force
sprinlelers for this purpose. A small
ordinary house can be thoroughly
washed with the assistance of one in
purpose cost only few dollars.
1t has been sald that lice are the
foundation OF all diseases of poultry.
Cleanliness and lice can not be found
in Il house at the same time. If there
are lice, turn out the fowls, carry
shovel full of hot Goals in the house,
close the doors and throw one-fourth
of pound of powdered sulphur on
the Goals. This is very purifying even
if lice are not present. Allow no
dirty, filthy pens or places about |
where the fowls are running. Give
pure water every day and plenty of |
good, substantial feed. Use kerosene |
oil on the roost poles once Il week at |
least. If the business is run on this |
plan you will have little trouble in the |
way of cholera. 1t is of the utmost |
Importance that ON discovering q sick |
bird in the flock, it be removed at
once to isolated quarters. Use special
care in every thing pertaining to the
flock. Feed little sulphur; use the
douglass mixture" in their drinking
water. When bird is entirely out of
reach OF the rest, you can try expert
with cures, but it is far better
to cut its head off and throw it away
at once than let it remain with the
flock.
Roup is disease very common in
poultry, and have lost large numbers
Of fowls by it, but / do not now con-
slider it q hard disease to control
Roup is similar to catarrh, being an
of the head and mucous
in which there will be dis
charge at the nostrils of very often
,ive nature. The head swalls on one
)r both sides, and If the disease is al
owed to reach its worst stag 2, the bird
will lose one or both eyes. This may
llso BIZ prevented to great extent by
keeping fowls in comfortable quarters.
American Agricaltarist.