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Show POSSIBLE REMEDY FOR ROUP Disease Is Difficult to Cure and Affected Af-fected Birds Should Be Removed to Roomy Coop. Roup may be known from an offensive offen-sive discharge from the nostrils and swelling below the eyes. The swelling swell-ing in some cases entirely closes the eyes. This disease is known as roup, and is difficult to cure. Remove all the healthy fowls. Put the affected ones in a warm, dry shed or roomy coop. Wash out the nostrils and mouth with warm water, using a small syringe to do so; then put a piece of camphor the size of a hickory nut Into one quart of boiling water and hold the fowl's head over it for ten minutes; repeat three times a day. Also give one teaspoonful of cod liver oil at a dose twice a day. If the swelling closes the eyes, open them and syringe out the yellow matter and wash with warm water into which a drop of carbolic acid has been thoroughly stirred. Fowls that are badly diseased should be killed and buried. Clean out the house, dust with fresh air-slaked air-slaked lime, fork up the yard and spread over it a thick coat of fre&h air-slacked lime. Add a few drops of bromide of potassium to the drinking water. Give no other water. This is the best method to use. |
