Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-13
PRACTICAL LESSONS IN POULTR KEEPING


very weak, drowsy, and often sleep
50 soundly during the last day or
two of their lives that it is difficult
to arouse them. If made to move,
they stagger forward for d few steps
only in an uncertain manner and
with dragging wings. The crop is
generally distended with food and
apparently paralyzed, and the
feathers about the vent are soiled
and sometimes pasted together with
eXcrement
As death approaches, the weight
and the strength Of the bird rapidly
diminish, it breathes with difficulty,
sits with the beak open, and the
breathing may be heard at some dis
! lance. Finally the weakness is such
that the beak is rested on the ground,
and little later the bird falls over
on one side, makes a few eonvulsive
movements, and dies.
In the very acute cases no
symptoms are seen: the birds may be
found dead under the roosts. or they
may fall at the feed trough and die
in g few minutes.
The cholera-like diseases often &C
cur in a chronic form. which NAV
follow an acute attack of the disease
or may be chronic from the first.
This form is characterized by a con-
tinually increasing weakness. loss of
weight, bloodlessness, and, finally. an
exhaustive diarrhoea Sometimes one
or more joints of the wings or feet
| swell, the birds become very lame.
and later the swellings break and
dlscharge a creamy or cheesy mass
which contains large numbers of the
germs.
These diseases may destroy the
greater part of a flock in week and
then disappear. or they may linper
fof months, only occasionally killing
bJrd. The time between exposure
t. the contagion and the appearance
or symptoms IS from two to five DAYS.
ana the duration of the disease is
from tWenty-four hours to ten davs
Inc most characteristic changes
seen after death are red spots on the
surface of the heart, which gives il
the appearance of having been sprink :
led with blood. conjestment and en-
/ largement of the liver and swelling nj
the spleen.
Methods of Treatment.
The best method of treatment is IN
Kill the sick fowls in such a way as
not to spread the infection with their
| blood, burn or deeply bury their
bodies separate the remaining birds
into small lots of to each. SO tina
when a bird is attacked there will not
be more than this number exposed to
1T; then watch each lot so as to re-
move any sick bird AS soon as symp-
toms appear. Disinfectants should
he used in the houses and yards where
/, the disease first appeared, and also in
the small pens where the separated
birds are kept.
If il is deemed advisable to treat the
sick birds they may be given to 4
teaspoonfuls of one-ha1f per cent.
carbolic solution twice a day. This is
generally made by adding / part of
the per cent. solution to Q parts of
water They should also be given
buttermilk to drink.
Generally the best results are OBJ
tanned by killing the sick birds and
separating the we'll ones into small
pens and giving to each one . doses
of the carbolic acid solution daily
for three or four days. The houses
and yards should be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected before the
fowls are returned to them. and
should be kept very clean for some
weeks afterwards to guard against
q recurrence of the disease.
Bird PoX Chicken Pox).
Bird poX, so far as known, does not
originate in any other way than by
contagion. 1t seems to be produced