The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-10
REMEDIES FOR
STANDARD ILLS
SOME VALUABLE HINTS ARE
GIVEN ON THE TREATMENT OF
POULTRY BY MICHAEL x. BOYER

Michael K. Boyer, the well known
poultry authority, gives some valua-
bic hints on treatment for early synp-
toms in the Industrious Hen, which
are briefed as follows:
II in the early stages of bumble-foot
we can spread the corn by painting
literally with tincture of iodine, daily,
for a week.
When our hens are allowed to be-
come overfat a disorder of the oviduct
is often the result, which causes 1t to
break down behind" 1t really is no
disease-merely a penalty for intudi-
cious feeding. The best remedy known
is to kill and eat such specimens. They
are not sick birds.
Canker is a disgusting ailment, but
generally in the start it can be checked
by several applications of fine salt
rubbed on the sore spots.
Four drops of aconite in q half pint
of drinking water, given daily for
week or more, is effective in cases of
catarrh.
Chicken-pox can be successfully
treated by amounting the head and
wattles with carbolated vaseline, after
having first bathed we'll with hot
water. A one grain quinine pill should
also be given each night for week.
Cases Of costiveness can be relieved
bv adding ten drops Of sulphate Of
magnesia to each pint of drinking
water.
For enlarged or sour crop, a half
teaspoonful of baking soda to quart
Of drinking water added daily for
few days, is excellent. During time Of
treatment feed spartngly.
Cases of crop bound has been sue
cessfully treated by giving the bird all
the warm coffee that can be forced
into its crop. The dose should be re-
peated several times.
When a bird is debilitated 1t needs
something nourishing so as to build up
better than a raw fresh egg every
morning until the fowl shows signs of
recovery. Then it can be changed to
a little cooked meat and little muri-
ate of iron added to the drinking wa
ter When it is noticed that a bird is
mopish, but otherwise seems in good
health, this sluggishness can be quick
Iy remedied by giving a family liver
piIl-just the kind that you would take
yourself did you seem out of sorts.
Repeat each night for three nights in
succession. If possible also allow the
bird free range over grass plot dur
ing the day time.
Slight cases of diarrhoea can be
greatly benefited y adding a few
drops of spirits of camphor to the
drinking water. Also add finely ground
charcoal to the soft feed.
Nothing better than linseed meal for
INDIGESTION. Give a gill in the soft
feed to each dozen hens. A teaspoon
full Of fenugreek added to the mash for
every ten fowls is also a good remedy.
A pill made Of a half grain of
quinine. one grain of sulphate Of iron
and five grains Of phosphate of lime is
lust the thing fro cases Of leg weak
ness. A more simple remedy is ten
drops of tincture nux vomica in
quart of drinking water.
A pill of assafoetida about the size
Of a yea given night and morning is
highly recommended for cases of linn
berneCk.
When the fowl "rattles in the throat"
il is evidence that there is some bron-
chiaI affection. This "rattling' will be
more plainly noticed at night while
the fowls are roosting. Give q half
teaspoonful every other morning Of
mixture composed of equal parts Of
vinegar and water. II this is not eff
fective treat with a mixture of one
part of spirits of turpentine with four
parts sweet oil. giving ten drops daily
There is no more effective remedy
for scalp legs than 10 coat them with
gas tar, allowing the preparation to
remain on the legs until it wears off.
! The scales as a rule come of with the
tar To make a still more complete
Job of IL, after the tar has worn of
wash the legs with warm water and
carbolic soap and after wiping dry ap-
ply a preparation Of one-third carbolic
acid to wo-thirds glycerine. The gly-
cerine has a tendency to soften and
bring out the color on the shanks and