Treatment. — Most recommend the immediate removal of
the thickened membrane, which can be effected by anointing
the part with butter or fresh cream. If necessary, the scab
may be pricked with a needle. It will also be found beneficial
to use a pill, composed of equal parts of scraped garlic and
horse-radish, with as much cayenne pepper as will outweigh a
grain of wheat; to be mixed with fresh butter✪ Garlic and Horse-Radish Pill for Fowl, and given every
morning; the fowl to be kept warm.
If the disease is in an advanced state, shown by the chick-
en's holding up its head and gaping for want of breath, the
fowl should be thrown on its back, and while the neck is held
straight, the bill should be opened, and a quill inserted into the
windpipe, with a little turpentine. This being round, will
loosen and destroy a number of small, red worms, some of
which will be drawn up by the feather, and others will be
coughed up by the chicken. The operation should be repeated
the following day, if the gaping continues. If it ceases, the
cure is effected.
It is stated, also, that the disease has been entirely prevented
by mixing a small quantity of spirits of turpentine with the
food of fowls, from five to ten drops to a pint of meal, to be
made into a dough. Another specific recommended is to keep
iron standing in vinegar, and put a little of the liquid in the
food every few day^.
Roup. — This disease is caused mainly by cold and moisture,
but it is often ascribed to improper feeding and want of clean-
liness and exercise. It affects fowls of all ages, and is either
acute or chronic; sometimes commencing suddenly, on expos-
ure; at others gradually, as the consequence of neglected colds,
or damp weather or lodging. Chronic roup has been known to
extend through two years.
Symptoms. — The most prominent symptoms are difficult
and no!f:y breathing and gaping, terminating in a rattling m
the throat; the head swells, and is feverish; the eyes are swol-
Itn, and the eyelids ajpear livid; the sight decays, and some-
times total blindness ensues; there are discharges from the
nostrils ai^d XDOUth, at fittl thin and limpid, afterwards thick,
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purulent and fetid. In this stage, which resembles the glan-
ders in horses, the disease becomes infectious. As secondary
symptoms, it may be noticed that the appetite fails, except for
drink; the crop feels hard; the feathers are staring, ruffled, and
without the gloss that appears in health; the fowl mopes by
itself, md seems to suffer much pain.
T ^ATMENT. — The fowls should be kept warm, and have
plenty ■)f water and scalded bran, or other light food. When
chroni , change of food and air is advisable. The ordinary
remedi s — such as salt dissolved in water — are inefficacious. A
iolutio\ of sulphate of zinc, as an eye-water, is a valuable
cleansii 5 application. Rue-pills, and a decoction of rue, as a
tonic, h ive been administered with apparent benefit.
The following is recommended: of powdered gentian and
Jamaica ginger, each one part; Epsom salts, one and a half
parts; and flour of sulphur, one part; to be made up with
butter, and given every morning.
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Treatment. — Most recommend the immediate removal of the thickened membrane, which can be effected by anointing the part with butter or fresh cream. If necessary, the scab may be pricked with a needle. It will also be found beneficial to use a pill, composed of equal parts of scraped garlic and horse-radish, with as much cayenne pepper as will outweigh a grain of wheat; to be mixed with fresh butter, and given every morning; the fowl to be kept warm.
If the disease is in an advanced state, shown by the chicken's holding up its head and gaping for want of breath, the fowl should be thrown on its back, and while the neck is held straight, the bill should be opened, and a quill inserted into the windpipe, with a little turpentine. This being round, will loosen and destroy a number of small, red worms, some of which will be drawn up by the feather, and others will be coughed up by the chicken. The operation should be repeated the following day, if the gaping continues. If it ceases, the cure is effected.
It is stated, also, that the disease has been entirely prevented by mixing a small quantity of spirits of turpentine with the
food of fowls, from five to ten drops to a pint of meal, to be made into a dough. Another specific recommended is to keep iron standing in vinegar, and put a little of the liquid in the food every few day^.
Roup. — This disease is caused mainly by cold and moisture, but it is often ascribed to improper feeding and want of cleanliness and exercise. It affects fowls of all ages, and is either acute or chronic; sometimes commencing suddenly, on exposure; at others gradually, as the consequence of neglected colds, or damp weather or lodging. Chronic roup has been known to extend through two years.
Symptoms. — The most prominent symptoms are difficult and no!f:y breathing and gaping, terminating in a rattling m the throat; the head swells, and is feverish; the eyes are swol- Itn, and the eyelids ajpear livid; the sight decays, and sometimes total blindness ensues; there are discharges from the nostrils and mouth, at first thin and limpid, afterwards thick,
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purulent and fetid. In this stage, which resembles the glanders in horses, the disease becomes infectious. As secondary symptoms, it may be noticed that the appetite fails, except for drink; the crop feels hard; the feathers are staring, ruffled, and without the gloss that appears in health; the fowl mopes by itself, md seems to suffer much pain.
Treatment. — The fowls should be kept warm, and have plenty of water and scalded bran, or other light food. When chronic, change of food and air is advisable. The ordinary remedies — such as salt dissolved in water — are inefficacious. A solution of sulphate of zinc, as an eye-water, is a valuable cleansing application. Rue-pills, and a decoction of rue, as a tonic, have been administered with apparent benefit.
The following is recommended: of powdered gentian and Jamaica ginger, each one part; Epsom salts, one and a half parts; and flour of sulphur, one part; to be made up with butter, and given every morning.
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