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Show DISEASES OF TURKEYS Fowls Are Subject to Same Troubles Trou-bles as Chickens. Blackhead Is Most Destructive Ailment Ail-ment and Is First Indicated by Sluggishness of Gait Place Birds on Fresh Soil. Turkeys are subject to the same diseases as chickens, but to a much greater extent. Blackhead, which prevails to a slight degree in the chicken yard is a destructive turkey disease. Chick-enpox, Chick-enpox, canker and roup are treated as tor chickens. Gape worms are treated by giving camphor in the water, or dusting a little lime for the poults to iuhale through a cheesecloth-covered box. This causes the birds to sneeze, and so to expel the worms. Blackhead is first indicated by a sluggishness of gait. The poult does not look ill, but is slow in coming in ; will linger for an evening or two, sauntering in at the end of the file of stately birds. Prom lagging behind, the affected bird drops out entirely, and may be found standing with drooped wings. A slight yellowish-white discharge about the vent indicates the disturbed dis-turbed condition of the liver. The chances are, when a bird reaches this condition, that it will give opportunity for a post-mortem in another day. This will show the two blind pouches of the intestines the caeca, or "blind guts" as they are commonly called filled with a thick whitish discharge, and covered with ulcers. The liver will be spotted, covered with circular yellow ulcers or depressions. AVhen blackhead is discovered in a flock, the birds should be placed on fresh ground, and great care taken tak-en to prevent contamination of the water through the droppings. A dose of epsom salts from a scant tea-spoonful tea-spoonful each to adult birds, to a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful to every six poults should be given. Turpentine in mash, or stirred through scalded wheat is a good thing. Give a half pint in three doses to 40 adult birds, on three successive suc-cessive mornings, and follow with a dose of epsom salts. Give all the onions the birds will eat chopped onion tops, roots and even onion tea. For individual treatment, treat-ment, take one egg, one teaspnonful of turpentine; beat well, and give a tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of the mixture night and morning to a poult three months old, half as much to a poult the size of a quail. If the bird won't eat, put the turpentine and egg on a piece of bread and force down throat. Destroy the droppings. |