The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-17
RoUp MAY BE AVOIDED.
How to Protect Poultry Against This
Disease.

Disease.
Roup, the winter bugbear of poultry
| Keeping, assumes several forms and ii
very contagious One ailing bird may
destroy a whole flock if allowed to run
with the rest OF the birds. In treating
roup the first thing to do il to separate
/ the sick bird from the well ones. When
| the eyes are watering and are showing
frothy substance in the corners, prompt
| treatment should be given. If you al
! low the disease to advance along to the
stage OF swelling OF the eyes and nasal
passages treatment will not be likely
| to prove so effective as in the beginning
when the trouble is simply cold or ca
| tarrh. Like the human family, poultry
are subject to catarrhal troubles. The
usual way of letting these simple trou-
bles 90 on until the poor birds nasal
passages are stopped up, head swells and
writes Fannie Nj. Wood. Bartonyille,
Ind, in the New York Tribune Farmer.
A fowl that is threatened with roup
| should be put in warm, dry quarters,
fed lightly and given half grain of
quinine morning and evening for sew
eral days; or, ii it is bad ease, until
il has regained its strength. Quinine is
good tonic for poultry. Then put
enough common table salt into warm
water to give 1t salty taste and spray
or inject the salt water into the nostrils
and throat twice day for several days.
It is easier TO dip the fowls head in
the salt water completely mmersing the
head. An old tin can may be used for
this purpose Wipe the head dry with
clean cloth. Put a little epson salts
in the drinking water.
Cleaning up the poultry house and
yards is necessary to arrest an outbreak
Of ropp. Filthy runs and houses fur
nish conditions favorable to the spread
Of roup, as we'll as other poultry all
ments. Nothing ever happens without
a cause. and there are many things that
may cause roup. Inbreeding weakens
the constitution Of a flock until the
birds are apt to develop colds and ca
tarrh. and thus the way is prepared for
roup. If your fowls are badly infested
with lice and are poorly cared for, they
are apt to get out of condition; then
they take cold easily. Damp houses and
fowls home are good things to start
an lnNdSlDH ol Iuup istdhA Ipuih Aiu
demp floors are certain TO be fatal To
the health of the flock They can stand
low temperature day or night. provid-
ed they are protected from drafts.
A cold floor IS dangerous. Some
houses occupied by poultry are too high
from the grounds thus the house catches
more wind, and, Of course, is colder. II
is better for the health of the fowls TO
turn them loose on a cold, stormy day
and LET them seek for themselves a shell
tered place FROM the wind than to shut
them in a house where the floor has
many openings to admit drafts 1t is
easy TO see how such a floor win chill
them almost to death, when we consid-
er the fact that the bodies of the fowls
are close to the floor all day long and
their feet in direct contact with it.
Once roup gets a good hold on flock
they are Of little value as breeders. The
strength of next springs chicken crop
depends largely on the health of the
breeders. If the little chicks are de-
at the start with the faint
of roup they haven't much chance of
developing into profitable fowls.