The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-23
HEALTHY POULTRY
ARE BEST LAYERS
Proper Care of Thrifty
Fowls Means a Pro-
6table Investment
TREATMENT HINTS

There are fundamentally two
factors involved in the continued
maintenance of good health in
poultry.
/. A sound and vigorous constitu-
ton. Thrifty fowls are almost i'm
mune to disease.
2. A system of poultry manage
ment (including feeding, housing,
etc. which is thorOly and absolutely
hygienic.
The bird of high constitutional
vigor will have thrifty appearance,
with a bright eye, and clean, we'll
kept plumage. The head will be
broad and relatively short, an indi-
cation of strength. 1t will show
nothing of the long-drawn-out,
sickly crow-like appearance of head
which is all too common among the
inhabitants of the average poultry
yard. The beak will be relatively
short and strong, the comb and wat
ties bright in color and presenting a
full-blooded, healthy, vigorous ap-
pearance, the body broad and deep,
well meated, strong in bone but not
coarse; the skin loose and pliable
and the sexual differences will be
we'll marked.
Competent poultrymen recognize
five factors absolutely essential in
any poultry house If the birds are to
thruve and be productive: % fresh
air, (2) freedom from dampness,
ray frnndnno frnn Two, oh o fAN
sunlight, (5) cleanliness.
Prevention is the keynote of sue
cess In the treatment of poultry
diseases. 1t is seldom profitable to
treat sick fowls. Their usefulness
as producers or breeders is usually
destroyed by the ailment and in addi-
ton to this, these apparently cured
fowls often carry the disease germs
within their bodies and later infect
others Of the flock. The spread of
most contagious diseases may be
eliminated by prompt removal of the
diseased fowls followed by careful
and premises.
Distinction implies a complete de-
struction of all germs and may be
accomplished by removal and burn
ing Of all litter and trash, white
washing the houses. spraying or
painting the roosts, dropping boards
and adjacent parts with coal tar dis
infectants (Cresol dip 1907 or kero-
sene, or crude carbolic acid 6 per
cent?; scalding or washing drinking
founts with 5 per cent carbolic acid:
changing to clean cultivated land or
pasture. Sunlight Is one of the most
powerful disinfectants, and the hot
suns rays are even destructive to
certain young parasites. To disin-
feet drinking water, add one dram of
potassium permanganate (enough to
cover surface of dime) to one gal
Ion ofwater, or add one tablespoon
full of sodium sulphite to one gallon
Of water.
ROup Contagious Disease
Symptoms: Fever, dullness, head
drawn in, wings dropping, thin,
watery infected discharge from nasal
openings which later becomes thick
and obstructs breathing, eyelids
swollen, birds sneeZe and shake their
heads to free their air passages from
the thick mucus.
Treatment: Isolate sick birds,
disinfect drinking water, house and
premises.
Chicken Pox Contagious Disease)
Symptoms: Round, oblong or ir-
regular eruptions about beak, nos
trils, comb, eyelids, wattles and ear
lobes, later become hard and crusty
Treatment: Put touch of iodine
on each sore and apply carbolated
vaseline disinfect drinking water
house and premises.
Fowl Cholera Contagious Disease)
Symptoms: Diarrhea of whitish
or yellowish secretions mixed with
considerable thin mucus; dullness
fever, detected and sleepy; loss OF
appetite; head drawn down to body
or turned backward; beak open
breathing difficult; pasty excrement
about vent.
Treatment: Burn carcasses of in.
fected birds; disinfect thoroly
houses, runs and water.
Gapes
Gapes is caused by a parasitic
worm which attaches itself to the
internal surface Of the windpipe
sucks blood from the mucous mem.
brane and obstructs the passage tc
such an extent as to interfere ger.
1, usly with the breathing. Gapes IL
especially prevalent in spring and
is most frequently observed in birds
ten days to four weeks old.
Symptoms: Affected chicks stand
round with dropping wings gaspine
for breath.
Treatment: Plow the ground and
lime 1t thoroly.
Limberneck or Ptomaine Poisoning
Caused from eating decomposine
foods especially meats.
Symptoms: Unsteady gait, partia
paralysis of muscles; birds lie in re
Taxed condition with head and necl
curled back or toward breast, coml
turns black, diarrheal discharges, oc
casionally bloody.
Treatment: If trouble is recog
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