TREATMENT.—Preventive treatment is the best. Feed green food occasionally
and warm bran mashes. This prevents constipation. When the bird strains
frequently and a discharge is present the following solution should be
injected: Sugar of Lead, two drams; Zinc Sulphate, one dram. Mix with two
quarts of water. Inject about one ounce with a syringe twice daily until
the discharge has ceased.
WHITE DIARRHOEA.
(_Fowl Cholera_)
CAUSE.—Germ (Bacilli of Fowl Cholera) gaining entrance to the body
through the bowels, lungs or wounds of the skin. Death results from
toxic material produced while the germs are multiplying.
SYMPTOMS.—All poultry, cage or wild birds are subject to this disease.
The first symptoms are loss of appetite; diarrhoea is present and the
discharge is almost white in color and tinged with transparent mucus. The
affected bird becomes separated from the flock, seems weak and stupid and
appears to be asleep; feathers are rough, the wings droop and the head
is drawn in toward the body; crop is generally full, owing to improper
digestion. The comb is pale and bloodless, the temperature raised from
three to five degrees above normal and the bird loses weight rapidly; it
may die with convulsions and cries, or without a sound or struggle.
TREATMENT.—To grown fowls, give Zinc Sulphocarbolates in one-half grain
doses three times a day in their food or drinking water. To chicks,
dissolve thirty grains of Zinc Sulphocarbolates in two quarts of water.
Saturate feed, as stale bread, etc., and give three times a day. Zinc
Sulphocarbolates is an antiseptic especially prepared for septic
conditions of the intestines, and very useful in treatment of White
Diarrhoea and Fowl Cholera. In severe cases of diarrhoea, give Bismuth
Salicylate, one grain, three times daily in feed or make into a pill with
dough. When the fowls will eat, feed them clean, nitrogenous food that
they can digest easily, as oatmeal mashes. It is also necessary to give
them pure water to drink at all times. Disinfection of the premises is
another essential factor in the treatment of this disease, and undiluted
Crude Carbolic Acid is a disinfectant that we can rely upon at all times.
I cannot recommend vaccination as the serum is very difficult and
expensive to produce and different breeds of birds require varying doses,
therefore, vaccinating poultry for White Diarrhoea or Fowl Cholera is not
attended with any great degree of success.
WORMS.
CAUSE.—Few fowls are entirely free from worms. The soil over which the
chicks are permitted to run may be infected, or the food may contain the
eggs or embryos of worms.
SYMPTOMS.—The presence of worms in fowls may not be at once detected,
since only a close observer would notice them in the droppings. If the
birds eat well but remain poor, and the feathers appear rough and the
comb and wattles pale, there is reason to suspect the existence of worms.
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