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Show GAPES CAUSED BY PARASITE Symptoms Are Sneezing, Continual Gasping for Breath and Suffocation Suffoca-tion Some Good Remedies. The cause of gapes in young chicks Is a parasite ic the windpipe. C'"his parasite is & small, reddish worm, which is the larvae of an insect living on the skin. The sypmtoms are sneeJ-ing, sneeJ-ing, continued gasping for breath, and suffocation. To prevent this affliction, anoint the head of the chick with one ounce of mercurial ointment, one ounA of lard, one-half ounce of flower of sulphur and one-half ounce of crude petroleum. Immersing chicks in the fumes of carbolic acid till nearly suffocated suf-focated is unfailing, though dangerous. To withdraw the parasitical worms, insert two stiff horsehairs in a loop, twist and pull. Also strip a feather except the end tuft, dip in turpentine, insert, twist once, and withdraw. Be careful ont to lacerate the throat. |