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Show TROUBLES OF YOUNG CHICKS Nothing Better for Bowel Complaint Than Freshly Burned Charcoal Fed in Any Quantity. Very often bovel troubles develop among young chicks, from no apparent appar-ent cause, and of such serious nature as to threaten the success of the early hatch. While this trouble develops both with hens and brooders, it is) more prevalent in the latter. Once this bowel trouble develops it spreads very rapidly. Doctoring chickens of any age is a hard proposition. With young chicks it is practically impossible to do anything for them with any of the rec- v ognized remedies used by poultry men. For bowel trouble in little chicks .there is nothing better than freshly burned charcoal. It is pulverized daily, rolled into a dust and mixed with the rations given the chicks. It is a corrective rather than a medicine. Its value is well known in treating v stomach and digestive disorders in the human body. Its effect is even more pronounced when used on chickens. Charcoal is an absorbent, having the power to take up the foul gases in the digestive tract. The fresher it is the more valuable. It can be fed any quantity, as the birds will not eat too much of it. The only trouble about leaving it in the open is that after being exposed to the air very long it loses its effectiveness to a great extent. When fed to very small chicks the quantity had best at first be limited until the effect Is seen and then the amount can be regulated by the condition of the patients. Another good thing for little chicks Is to put some tincture of iron in the drinking water. This acts more as a general tonic than anything. Another drug that has about the same effect is potassium permanganate. Put enough in the drinking water to color it violet |