Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1907-07-27
simnla Renledies.

Roup-A subscriber giving neither
name nor address contributes the
following: For roup in chickens /
use this remedy: To each quart Of
drinking water, add one one-hun-
dredth of a grain Of arsenite of anti
mony and teaspoonful Of kerosene.
! | set this where the birds can drink
when they desire water. Plenty of
air-slacked lime should be sprinkled
over the floor of the house and the
pens. If the birds are very sick /
give each one two grains Of calcium
sulphide once each day in a little
wet mash.
Condition Powders-+One of the
best condition powders for hens may
be made of the following: Two
pounds of linseed meal, two
pounds of green cut bone, one
pound of charcoal, two ounces of
sulphur, one ounce of salt, two
ounces Of ground ginger, four
ounces of fenugreek. Mix well and
add two tablespoonfuls to each
quart of ground feed given the lay
ing birds. AS a conditioner for
laying hens in both winter and sum-
mer, this has few equals.
Cholera-One of the first things
necessary in treating the birds for
cholera is to thoroughly disinfect
the house in which they roost. This
may be done by sprinkling the floor
with solution of crude carbolic
acid and not water, by scattering a
liberal amount of air-slacked lime
over the floor or by burning sulphur
in the house when all the birds are
out. In the drinking water place a
little carbolic acid, about a tea
spoonful to each two gallons of wa
ter being sufficient. Then feed one
tablespoonful of the following mix
ture each day in the feed of twenty
five chickens chickens: Sulphur,
eight ounces; black antimony, two
! ounces; saltpeter, two ounces; cay
enne pepper, two ounces; Jamaica
ginger, two ounces.
Feather Eating-A Montpelier,
Ind, subscribers chickens are adj
dicted to the babit of feather pulling
and eating. The birds pull and eat
the feathers of other birds till some
of them are almost featherless. This
habit is hard to overcome. In fact,
we only know of but one case where
it was really overcome. The bird was
a high priced one and the owner did
OF wish to kill it. 1t took him two
years of continued effort to correct
the habit. Iu the case of common
barnyard fowls it is generally cheap
er to put them in the fattening pen
and place them on the market as
soon as possible. AS soon as a bird
shows signs of the habit, remove it
from the rest of the flock. If posi-
BILE place it in pen or coop by it.
self. Feed literally of mixture of
meat and bone meal. The birds ac-
quire the habit in the attempt to
satisfy the desire for more animal
food and if they are. given little
animal food in the form Of meat and
bone meal, the trouble will be pre-
vented in a large measure. Mix a
little sulphur either in the drinking
water or in the soft feed. Rub the
feathers nea- the picked places with
powdered aloes and lard, equal parts.
Another good ointment to place on
the feathers is lard, one part and
cayenne pepper, two parts.
Loss of Feathers-It frequently
happens that fowls lose their feath-
ers. Sometimes the broody hens have
so few feathers that they are unable
TO hover their little chicks. Make a
mixture of one part of fenugreek
and two parts of fiaXseed meal and
give a teaspoonful once each day in
the soft feed of each dozen BIRDS
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