Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-07-16

Rome, Cal have read every article
you have written on chickens, but
none seem to describe the way my
chickens are affected. 1 have some
very fine Bun Rocks two months and
one-half old, one is dropping with
feathers all bushy. He has been run
ming out. but the premises are free
of any dead or decaying matter, so
/ can not think it is limberneck. He
doesn't hold his head down, either
but rather sunken into his shoulders.
He eats his feed, which l give my
grown fowls CPurina, etc0, but will
not get about like the well ones do.
L had one six weeks old that l cured
by giving it hmberneck cure Com
keys. painting its throat with tur-
pentine and lard, charcoal, turpentine
pill and castor oil. He recovered in
two days after this treatment ana
1 don't know which did the work. /
have repeated this treatment with the
ones now sick, but it doesn't seem
to cure them. What should do? I
lost a smaller one today, ! suppose,
from Iimberneck though I did not
know they died so suddenly. When
I let them out In the green lot none
seemed sick In about four hours he
returned to his pen with head hang
ing on ground. l Immediately got
him and gave him dose of Conkey's,
but he began gasping for breath as
soon as he swallowed it, and in
few moments was dead. This lot is
about six weeks old. I brought them
all in to their run and fed them
Conkey's cure in meal dough. Will 1T
hurt them IL they are not affected?
What quantity should / give to 81
chickens, and how often?
l have one hen that was sick some
way in the early spring. I cured her
with castor oil. Since then she has
not laid an egg until the past week
and then she eats them Immediately.
Will your former remedy for that ben
eft her? 1 have kept oyster shell in
their bins constantly since your ar
ticIe on the subject. Their bowels
do not seem affected in either case.
Do you consider the Buff Rocks
more delicate than any other? have
lost about 40 little ones from two to
three weeks old with white diarrhoea.
Since then I learned the use of black
pepper and climax powders, and 1t
has seemed to cure them. give all
my chickens my personal care, and
am with them all day long. Never
dew and dampness is dried off the
grass, feed them exactly as you d.
rected, watch for lice, mites, etc, give
them pure. fresh water three and
four times day, and I can not think
what is the trouble or the cause of
it, This is my first experience in
poultry raising and I love 1t very
much. but feel right discouraged for
my loss of 40 out of 100 Will you
kindly answer and help me out all
you can? will appreciate II so much.
Thanking you in advance for your
kindness and your help through The
Journal, I am,
Very truly,
MRS. G. B. w.
ANSWER.
From the description given, your
chickens are still getting something
poisonous. 1t would be best to move
them in a yard where they can get
nothing but clean food. Ptomaine
poison will kill chickens as quick as
any other poison matter. A prepara-
ton made for this purpIse will not
cure the we'll ones and will often
save chickens that do not show that
they are affected. When you find one
or two chickens that have limberneck
YOU can rest assured that some of
the others are more than apt to fall
prey to the same trouble, and ii is
best to begin to treat the whole flock
Immediately. The directions on the
back OF Conkey's limberneck cure tell
you in what quantity to give it. You
should read these directions and fol-
low them to the letter. 5iany chick
ems that have a serious spell are af-
fected like the hen you mention, and
sometimes they do not recover at all.
You can break her from eating eggs
by making the nest in a dark place
and using china nest egg in 1t, also
keep several china nest eggs around
where she can see them. Egg eating
usually is a habit, and when they