Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-08
THE POULTRY YARD
TREATMENT FOR FOWLS
BY ED WEBER

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While the writer holds that It is not
profitable to resort to much poultry
doctoring, for even If the fowls are APP
parently cured they are unreliable
breeding stock But to give prolnp,
treatment in the early stages Is wise
act. Reviewing the more common all
ments in the poultry yard, we learn
these facts:
Moisten commercial chick feed with
pure olive oil until it is moist enough
to cling together and feed the chicks
all they will eat. The medicinal quail
titles of olive oil are well known. and
this mode of treatment has the ear
marks of common sense. In extreme
cases. where the chicks are pasted UP
behind, remove the accumulated mass
with soft cloth and warm water, and
| inject two or three drops of the oil with
q medicine dropper or very small glass
syringe.
If in the early stages Of bumblefoot
we can spread the corn by painting Ii
berally with tincture of iodine daily for
q week. Bumblefoot is caused by hav-
/ ing too high perches or roosting places.
In flying down the fowls feet often
come in contact with some hard, sharp
object which causes q bruise, resulting
in the corn.
Eat overfat Hens.
When our hens are allowed to become
, overfat disorder of the oviduct is Of
ten the result which, causes it to break
down behind. 1t really is no disease,
merely penalty for injudicious feed
ing. The best remedy known is to kill
and eat all such specimens. They are
| not sick birds.
Treat canker With Salt.
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 half pint
of drinking water, given daily for a
catarrh.
Chtckenpox is successfully treated
by amounting the head and wattles with
carbolated vaseline, after having first
bathed well with hot water. A one
grain quinine pill should also be given
each night for a week. A one grain
quinine pill given each night for three
nights or a week will work wonders in
cases Of colds.
Cases of costiveness can also be re-
lieved by adding ten drops of sulphate
of magnesia to each pint Of drinking
water.
sweeten Crops With Soda.
For enlarged or sour crop, half tea
spoonful Of baking soda to a quart Of
drinking water, added daily for few
days, is excellent. During time of
treatment feed sparingly. Cases of crop
bound have been successfully treated
by giving the bird all the warm coffee
that can be forced into its crop. The
dose should be repeated several times.
When a bird is debilitated it needs
something nourishing so as to build up
the wasting tissues. There is nothing
better than raw fresh egg every
morning, until the fowl shows signs Of
recovery. When it is noticed that a
bird Is moping. but otherwise seems
IN good health, this sluggishness can
be quickly remedied by giving an or
binary liver pill Slight cases of
diarrhoea can be greatly benefited by
adding q few drops of spirits Of cam
phor to the drinking water. Also add
finely ground charcoal to the soft feed.
Treatment For Indigestion.
There Is nothing better than linseed
meal for Indigestion. Give a gill in the
soft feed to each dozen hens. A tea
spoonful of fenugreek added to the
mash for every ten fowls is also a good
remedy.
A pill Of esafoetida, about the size Of
one grain Of sulphate Of iron, and five
grains of phosphate of lime, is just the
thing for cases Of leg weaknesses. A
more simple remedy Is ten drops Of
tincture of nux vomica in quart Of
drinking water.
A pill Of asafoelida, about the size Of
a pea, given night and morning, is high
ly recommended for cases of limber-
neck.
When the fowl "rattles in the throat
it is evidence that there is some bron-
chial affection. The rafting" will be
more plainly noticed at night, while the
fowls are roosting. Give teaspoonful,
every other morning, of mixture COM
posed Of equal parts of vinegar and
water. If this is not effective, 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 scaly legs than to coat them with
gas tar.
drop of glycerine is also a sover-
eign remedy for sore eyes.