POULTRY NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 1509, 16 January 1914, Page 10

POULTRY NOTES.

I SKFI'I, I'Ori.TRY REMEDIES. lii i v.r . :•■ in.iit\ lilt le thin he li |.nnl--1 ' V keepeis i ;;ii do In keep their lords in I<• 111. which do Hit i,ik.' long asm yet .«:• VI. ..M„ll,. i\, 1., Slims* When I■' -!i li:ni> :iiv piiii lum'il it is an < \ >" 'in plan t" kip them in ant mv j ! •' i i"Uple of il.us litlcro plaiiiu* ibein j ••'..• i i!,.- i :h.-r fttoilv. as there are a i;<hxl [ 1.... v f,..v|., ■.>!,;, 1, ~„M1'.,:l .-light « .Ids 1 ■ i. i i.ulw ,iv join r.\ . .iii.l. f..r tit ■ « Hit I ■ •' «.: rr\..!i.Mi, till"-)' .olds develop . .< it. 1.1 :. • 11 ; i i.f rmip. and this tie i. ■■ oil', j.|.|.mJ< iiii-!!,' Ihe ..(her birds . ' ,v ,■ ~ ii. ii,., | M.iii\ 1n..,- lord.- , l"'. II I. m in :!„.< «.i\. ' I .11, In' ..., 111 l \ keeper ill - n I'll" 1 low ! \ ,»,. ;,,,« 'and ti.oii in the even 1.. .-.- ii tin 1 bud- a., ail ruin . as • r ...:idii!..n ..in I" ol,.,Tved I'll the i■ . !, Mm. i:,l -I ..- bud he breathing hard ■ ■ ;• .u>|io..i,l ,1 ~| warmed glycerine, fob i "■••.! L\ ,■ f 511.i.l 0.1. .5h0',,1.1 be ..'isell ... t.-- ... ii :.v ifMtuieiit will ease thorn ill a -in, I. ii,.. To ...linn,..-ter Miedi i:ie the fowl fcl.ould h ' e'.-l ruder til. It I: arm. in a position ft. i.ia: tin i. ei . tin..i have any heating. OiLerwi-i- Ilmds .aun.it be given ea>.ly ; . the hud ,an he held hetwr.ll the ■ i- nit. r s ],'.:>. « lii ih« fow Ir, body restt'.u mi ii.. thuh>. tin- 1.- fc 'ii hanging down > - thai lli.-v ■ iiii.ot iat,|. ajiaiiiM anyii::; lien i;i\>. two roup pills, and on •ii n\i>tav fifteen birds "lit- of every ' «iiit\ ill he well in from line, to <•- -II dav.s if treated when the litsl >\llipt' ms app.nr should lie rattling in the throut be >.i\ severe, and the breathing hard, the I • .:s >honld 1... painted with tinilllie of '■•■■'. tie Hiere it, a pl.nc free from teatlor? |uat under each wing, and this spot f v '"iil I be painted over. The exact place t-. apj)lv the iodine can be easily d'-tc ted i! tin- bud is wad lied as it bieathes. as '!, runlion of the lungs can he seen when the wings are held up. The i,.dtne '■' II soon ci\e the bird relief and case ili • brrathme: very mm h. Stewed linseed is very Btretiglheniiii: to a siik bird. To ftew the linseed place •*■ "me in a wiucepau, tnore than covering r with cold water, and put over a slow t':r. S.i that it dues not boil, but just -iiiin-i- for half an hour. 11.e linseed s-ho,iJi| be given as warm as the fowl can i iK.- it. A hen may take from three to •o\ tcnfipnonfuJs ; a cock seven to ten, aid if more is given it will not hurt t!. >n l-'vory poultry keeper should have a mi ill medicine cupboard -an ordinary ■' -den box with a door to it will answer ■'' it is just fastened on the wall within ... reach In this clipboard a few .- mi,;, remedies should be kept, a« it is i.- ■..•rnllv tli.. first hv doscb which do i'. hii.ls lie most, f;.s»<l, and when these • ' -~- ate given as soon as the fowls are a !.ng. further treatment is rarclv re- . cod lii the medicine cupboard there should be i tin of roup powder, a tin containing I i*oni salts, another of linseed, a email ii- of vaseline, and several bottles coni nine 111 castor oil, (2) glycerine. (3) ; '•' i • il. (4) tincture of iodine, lb) tinet ..... of arnica, (6) camphorated oil, and i |7 a solution of permanganate of potash. With 111 these ordinary ailments can bo m■, .s.-fully treated, as for a slight cold the treatment we. have advised if quite ■in -i 'ear-fiil. In rases of birds •which have been fightins, the combs and fates should be washed and then wiped dry, and then vaseline lied. Oarbolised vaseline answers better than the ordinary kind for this purI-*'-. Should there be any smaller spots iound paint at once with the liquid, disinfectant. When birds are overheated a dose of Ei sora salts is most effective. In all i-af.es of ailing fowls a dose of salts is sable, as this cleanses the system of nnv obstruction, and is frequently the Jmana of preventing further illness. On cold mornings roup powder should be added to tin food instead of poultry tiowder, and any cases of birds with Tunning at the nostrils should not be neglected, but the .nostril.') wiped dry and a feather dipped in paraffin passed up r.i< h no3tril without delay. A bundle of wing feathers should always ho kept by tbor,e who have fowls, and when they are killed th© pointed feathers, if tied into a bundle, are ready ft use in case there are those which v. quire treatment for mucus in the throat or disrhare from the nostrils. A few crystals of permanganate of ÜBtaftlt dissolved -in water and used to cleanse the throats of the birds answers will when the mucus is thin and watery, but when it is thicker some roup lotion 6i,.Aild be used GAPES. This is the time to look out for gapes, for many poultry keepers are troubled by this complaint appearing amongst their young chickens, and find that when they have an outbreak the • number of cases increases rapidly. The origin of gapes is due to Ted worms in the windpipe of the lirds. Where there are only two or three worms in each windpipe the birds are not affected nearly as badly as where there are lrom five to ten, as then the birds ■ficiiuently have great difficulty in breathing, and as the energies of the worms increase the birds are choked. It variably follows that the birds which are affected lose their strength, and unices they have prompt attention they just get weaker, and then die. The difficulty iii breathing is painful to see, especially when the worms get down to the bottom of the windpipe, where the bronchial tubes, leading into the lungs, branch out first to one lung and then to the other. Should they get, there it is almost certain death to the chickens within a few minues. People seek the cause for gapes, but this has not been satisfactorily settled. We are convinced that many chickens get it owing to their being on long grass— tin small insects on which they eagerly devour—and there is some relation betwrer their eating these and the outbreak which invariably follows. This is not, lowever, always the cause, because < hii kens which are not on grass at all Ret gapes occasionally. We know chickens have gapes, and the worms get into the windpipe, but how, no one has yet been able to ascertain for a rertaintv. Stagnant water, which has been ex[*x<ed to the sun, will often bring gape** on not only in chickens, turkeys, and pheasants, but also in young birds of flight, after they have left their nests, and drink stale water. Water which does ji.it, come direct from the spring or well should always be boiled before being given to the chickens, turkeys, or idieahaiOs to drink, otherwise the probability is gapes will break out among the young 'feathered triln-s-. People often say their lurdh have gapes when it is really not this at all. In many cases it is merely a rough or cold the birds have, the throat L' ..ones sore, and they open their mouths, ,-..., mllv when the nostrils become KMlfl-d UP I huso poultry keepciK "ho had gapes milling*) their birds last year are almost Mire to be Withered with it this season, if the chicken;- are reared on the samo ground, and sometimes the latter will lr.ve it if they are put in the same < oops, unless the I'-imp*, have been thoroughly will cleansed with hoi water, soda, and map. After they have been cleansed il 1-. well to liniewash them inside, as this floes away with any germs of the disease that might be there. An excellent and simple, cure for gapes in first stages is to pour a few drops of pure carbolic acid on to a teaspoon, then, hold this over a lighted candle, and place the chickens so that the fumes from the carbolic add burning over the candle (or lamp) permeate its mouth and throat. The bitd or birds can be put in a small box with a fine mesh wire netting front. B.i that they face the fumes. When a large number are In be treated a large flat tin win be, utilised for holding the carbolic and, ami this .an he fitted over ■a little lamp, such a- a . tesoline burner, and then time is saved ; but it i.- necessary to fumigate tho biids twice.