Richfield Reaper | 1915-11-11 | Page 2 | Tried Cures for Poultry Diseases

TRIED CURES FOR POULTRY DISEASES avoid leg weakness in chicks by proper feeding remedy for swelled head leg weakness in chicks Is often due to the food being of a fattening na true and the bodies in consequence become too heavy for the muscular strength of the chicks legs there should be bran in the soft food that is fed it being one of the best bone and muscle foods that could be given A afflicted isted chicks should be givon given quinine water dally daily made by dissolving five grains of quinine in a quart of drinking water also add bone meal and charcoal and also give green food dally daily very often fowls from some unexplainable cause will become afflicted with swelled head and fever exposure to a draft of air while roos roost t ing at night however is the most co common in reason in which case the eye nearest the draft becomes first affected in itself swelled head bead is not roup but when the lumps appear it is one of the first stages of that disease A very good treatment is to mix one part spirits of turpentine and four parts of sweet oil with this anoint the head face and comb dally daily then give twice a day a pill com composed posea of equal aarts p arts of bromide of potash and quinine the pill to weigh one grain add in addition a teaspoonful teaspoon tul ot of chlorate of potash to each quart of drinking water the looseness of the bowels of a fowl generally Is due to something it has eaten increase the amount of in the hash and add a teaspoonful teaspoon tul of charcoal every day to each quart of soft food fowls should have charcoal at least twice a week