Milford chronicle., 1916-02-25

I be said to be the presence of White
A DiarrhOea, or what is called bowel trou-
!. BILE. Every breeder of fowls will. from
: time to time, meet with conditions, the
e presence of which causes him a great
y deal of worry, to say nothing of the
4 amount of loss he sustains by the con-
tinual dropping off of birds. This con-
' dition comes to the man who may have
but single pair of birds as well as to
the man who maintains great number
, of fowls.
Bowel trouble being the most dreaded
] disease known to the poultry fraternity,
and particularly as far as the raising Of
young chicks is concerned, therefore be-
, comes the one great stumbling block of
the poultryman. A number of persons
engaged in raising chickens rarely if
ever give the subject any particular
, study, but instead, just rely upon nat
ural conditions for the raising of chicks
. and the filling of the egg basket. They
never put sufficient energy into their
business to determine the origin of any
disease or ailment that might develop
among their stock, nor do they attempt
to affect a cure or adopt preventative
methods for future protection. Such
persons just raise fowls and are not to
be classed as breeders or poultrymen.
When chickens, like people, become
sick, there must be a cause. With the
outbreak of a contagious disease in a
corporated city or town, the first aim of
its health authorities is to determine
the cause, and when once found, they
remove it. Thus the disease may be
successfully cOmbatted. There would
be little use to attempt to check the
disease without first removing the cause.
This same reasoning applies to the care
of the feathery tribe.
Bowel trouble in chicks may gener-
ally be traced to one of the following
causes careless feeding, improper san
itation, mOuldy foods or litter, or access |
to decayed vegetables or meat. Care |
less feeding however, is more often the |
cause of this trouble than any other. |
By careless feeding mean supplying |
badly-balanced ration or in Over-feeding |
the chicks. The badly balanced ration |
| serves to overtaX the digestive organs, |
causing the bowel trouble to make its |
appearance and over feeding has pre-
cisely the same result. In order to /
overcome any possible chance for the I
development of this arrangement it is
necessary that the greatest care be
taken with the feeding of the baby
chick. Poor sanitation, which permits
filthy, dirty quarters. together with
poor ventilation is often the cause of
this condition of the chicks, as is also
the feeding of the beef scrap, exceed
ingly rich in protein, in too large guam
titles. DecaVed fruit, vegetables and
the like will also affect the digestive or
gans of the chicks, thus causing bowel
trouble
The fact that this dreaded disease may
be produced from so many different {
causes, as above stated, furnishes con- I
elusive evidence of how very important {
it is to give the youngsters your best Z
care and attention, in order that the I
calamity may be avoided, and incidently,
to insure success in your venture. Many r
thousands of chicks die every year from C
this dreaded disease, and while many q
persons boot at the idea of a cure or 0
prevention, yet these same persons will b
refuse to give the care and attention to &
the details in an effort to keep the dis
ease from making its appearance. o
The idea of cure is by far a more e
difficult matter than the one of preven- u
tion. 1t is possible to effect a cure ii
when once the disease has made its ap- ir
pearance, but this cannot be done with
out the loss of some chicks. Prevention
Of this disease, and in order to prevent.
)ne must devote both time and attention III
10 the welfare of the chicks. No
A great many persons often mistake y,
The disease known as bowel trouble for
cholera, and therefore administer harsh
reatment. This only serves to increase
he trouble rather than to relieve it, "
md for that reason II is better to begin pH
With the simple remedies instead of us al
ng the harsh ones usually applied in
ases of cholera.
p In some cases bowel trouble NAV be
ured by Withholding all food for a dav pc
II two, and then feeding lightly for the
leriod of a week. This gives the diges-
i've organs a chance to clear all the
poisonous matter that may be deposited
q them, and at the same time give them
rest from Overwork. This will not ri
lWays cure, however. ~
No matter what method of cure YOU
dOpt, it is absolutely necessary to re- IA
lOve the affected birds from the per- n
ectly healthy ones to thoroughly dis
fleet all feeding trOughs and drinking ,,,;,
essels, in order to kill any germ that
lay be lurking there and which would ms
e picked up by other birds. da,
In the treatment of this disease. l
AVG oaiu Liidb pIGNGhblou is D6LLeE LQA0 I n
cure, and for that reason let me say 7
tile along those lines. There are pos s,,,
bly, many things that might be sug- \
'sted as a possible preventative for dor
is disease, but the average person STr
lows little more of them after they "A
we been suggested than before. Sim ahs
2. but effective remedies l believe in -'''
cases to be the best ones, as for in
ance, in the treatment of catarrh
mmon table salt is by far the best
medy. Some years ago / sought D
eventative and remedy for this chick Eat
ment, and notwithstanding the fact nj
at ! spent much money and time, / ems ems
U lost many promising youngsters. the
The solution was at last found, how enc
er, and for the past six or seven years nor
lave not lost a single bird from this thIr
use. This is not an exaggerstion, nor chu
! mean to say that ! have raised Plei
erV chick hatehed buf nooo hov,~ ry;.S 49,.