Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-17
CHICKEN CHOLERA.
Cleanliness the Only Means by Which Its
Spread Can BE Prevented.

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 SOwl when at
tackled 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 a clean
sweep. You may hear of many "cholera
cures" and perhaps see number of
them offered to the public, but it is
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 l ever got ahead of chicken
cholera was cleanliness; clean houses,
clean roosts, clean yards, clean stables,
clean 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 if found should be removed at
once. All poultry houses should have
a good board floor, which should be
swept at least twice a week as clean as
a 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 out should be done
three or four times during the sum-
mer. There are several kinds of force
sprinklers for this purpose. A small
ordinary house can be thoroughly
washed with the assistance of one in a
few minutes. The best pumps for this
purpose cost only few dollars.
II has been SAID that lice are the
of all diseases of poultry.
and lice can not be found
in a house at the same time. II there
are lice, turn out the fowls, carry a
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
Dill on the roost poles once a week at
east. 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 sick |
bird in the flock, it be removed at |
,nce to isolated quarters. Use special |
ARE in every thing pertaining to the |
lock. Feed a little sulphur; use the |
Douglass mixture" in their drinking |
water. When a bird is entirely out of |
each of the rest, you can try expert
nenting with cures, but it is far better
% cut its head of and throw it away
= once than let it remain with the
lock
Koupls a disease very common in
poultry, and have lost large numbers
If fowls by it, but 1 do not now con-
ider it a hard disease to control
aoup is similar to catarrh, being an
Election of the head and mucous
in which there will be dis
harge at the nostrils of a very often
i've nature The head swells on one
II both sides, and if the disease is al
owed to reach its worst stage, the bird
will lose one or both eyes. This may
.lso be prevented to great extent by
,eeping fowls in comfortable quarters.
American A1ricultHrist.