The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-11
ROup.

Pom ia a disease that is not feareo
,,,, tt,osa that have never had it IN
their flocks A person Will soIne'iiho
raise Doultry for many years anu
never have a case. 1t Is our pelieI
that it is possible to keep the disease
ont of the flock altogether by using
due precautions. Bad weather conul
flows seem frequently to be the cause
| IF the disease, but it Is certainly oue
| tn n CORN. and however bad the
weather the disease could not come
p.ithout the germs being present. But
| even if the germs are present 'n1'
not find a chance to develop With
ont The assistance of filth, dampnesS
.nd drafty roosting places. Inc way
RI icon roup out of a flock is TO keep
tho benhouse clean, supply II Win an
abundance of light, have 1t so tlsnI
that the fowls will be exposed 10 ~
drafts and then be careful about III
troducing new birds New fowls ih"s'
he purchased now and then, but sucn
ones should be kept by themselves
and away from the rest OF the ho1N
for a month after purchase 10 hahe
, sure that they are healthy. Wnen 'ns
y disease is once introduced II IS likel'
o to prove a very stubborn VISITOR
Il eject. Prevention Is far easier 'u"'
/. cure.
@ Roup is frequently very destructive
g hut at other times the disease seem
It to be mild in form, carrying OIL
IS birds at all. This has led 10 III
a suspicion that there are seVeral I'll
Is eases that we ignorantly named rou
in We are certain that there arc at lea
,g two. one being common IL WINTER a. d,
I'd the other most fatal in summer.
bacteriologists are wcrklng on u
diseases at the present trne anu ii'
ultimately bring light out of the dar
nv ness. But with our present knoWled
- we must treat all of these diseases
60 one and call them simply roup. tt
word is an old one and means
-. crv ont" 1t was probably given
+b;s disease because birds affect
~. With II cry out A synonym is I
ing pip" q.
, When this disease gets into tic
~, ,n +ba 1oeees from. dead birds may
mo .y,.aat. Int the Interpretation of
live birds may be even greater. [
man claimed to us that he had
-oo;na that had cured his flock
rom. 1t was quite an extensive CT
iSh- hination of drugs that were made
-ES into pellets. Each bird had to
ICE caught in turn and have the pei
tne crammed down the throat. 1t t
III several months in the winter to
inc thu flock, and this work had to
,Sn' done lust at the time when the &c
oa' should have been laying eggs. "B
oe' said the man, 81 cured them amy
ma" and without losing a single fowl,
I didn't get any eggs till the mi
Of the next summer" 1t may
be doubted If the cure was worth
Ega trouble. Doubtless it would have
lisa better to have chopped off the h
ssJ of the we'll fowls as soon as 1t
1st anparent that the disease was Ii
8Sb to take them.
i8jk Rcup is Indicated by the birds
lI ing swelled heads, watery eyes,
Ill., .rils clogged with matter, by diar1
W and by a high fever. Sometime
,es OF symptoms except fever and diaI
,elers are wanting. 1t is better to kill c
,larly birds that are sick than to q
them. But If 1t is desired to d
them, their heads and threats s.
..,, be washed In antiseptics and the
and sick birds should be separat
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