Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-06-30


alfalfa mills the alfalfa Is
handled in this way nowadays and
it does not require any time to cure
IT in the sun, which is the reason IL
retains the nice green color. Alfalra
fed in this way is almost as GOOD
as If fed green for your chickens
and the feeding of plenty OF alfalfa
is very essential to successful Keep
Ing of fowls.
Mrs. ]. L., Cuthbert, Ga.
Will you please diagnose this case
and give me a remedy through Inc
Semi Weekly Journal?
have nine chickens between two
and three months of age. They have
been droopy several times and / fed
them international Chicken Powders
a few DAYS and they would get up.
About a week ago / noticed their
wings were dropped little, comb and
gills pale, but they ate heartily, so
/ never thought any more about them
until day before yesterday morning
when went to feed them, the whole
brood was standing asleep with their
wings nearly touching the ground.
Before finding the chickens sick, l
found a dead chicken with maggots
in it, so of course when found the
chicks sick 1 decided the cause and
gave them a tablespoonful of EPSON
salts.
In the afternoon they seemed to be
better. / gave them castor oil and
salts yesterday morning, and 1
thought yesterday afternoon they
would all get we'll, but found one dead
this morning and two nearly dead.
also found several larger and several
smaller ones droopy, with pale
combs and gllls, and good many
Of the others have pale combs. but
are not droopy. gave all
the droopy ones a half tea
spoonful of castor oil with small
drop Of turpentine in 1t, and mixed
salts in feed in proportion to two ta-
blespoonfuls for 20 old fowls and one
for 20 young ones. VIII say right
here, this brood drew up in a knot
and stayed that way until about four
weeks old Today / examined them
carefully to see If there were any
lice or mites on them and there were
none, but I discovered this: Their
heads were swollen. The skin on head
and necl-in fact, all over them ex-
oept under the breasts very red and
very dry and crisp as though it had
been parched. The end of the tongue
is dry and hard. They eat hearty
all the time The one that died last
night ate hearty yesterday at noon.
I have been feeding them on mixed
chicken feed at night and morning.
until a few days ago commenced
giving them two parts bran and one
Of corn meal at morning. I am at
loss to know what to do as l have
fa1 xrvox
I have kept their roosting quarters
clean. used tar. lime and Kerosene
literally. The discharge from some OF
them is watery, and some are not
watery, but of greenish color.
ANSWER.
In the first place. the trouble with
this special brood of chickens is that
their digestive organs have evidently
been at a weakened stage all along
during their lives, while 1t is very
likely that the parents they we're
Matched from did not have strong
constitutions. That Is one cause of
their being upset at different times
and not being healthy and thrifty.
OF course you found out what
caused the sickness among them. as
described in your letter and these
dead carcasses and pHtrid matter
with maggots kills more chickens than
all other disease together, and few
people know what causes il. II they
have had this ptomaine poison and
their system is once upset, it takes
several days for them TO recover Of
they ever do. and one has to be
very careful what they eat after
wards. The best and SAFEST way after
you have found any chickens affected
is to yard the entire bunch and get
them away from the trouble that is
causing it, as usually there is more
than one place they are getting the
poison (often a dog or cat will dis
tribute 1t all over the place. and diff
ferent chickens will come in contact
with anything dead. which will kin
them You should yard every one
of your chickens and continue to treat
them with the salts and turpentine,
as you have been doing. This could
be administered in their soft feed
of equal parts of brain, shorts, corn
meal and wheat bran, whichever is
more convenient.
Mrs. H. H. Hughes, Route 8. Box
Z, Decatur, Ga.
am very much interested in
your pieces in The Journal
save all of them and have obtain
a lot of help from them.
have mostly Domineckers.
Have few White Leghorns that
were Matched in April. which I
hope to get a start from.
! write this letter to see If you