APOPLEXY.
Apoplexy is not uncommon amongst highly-fed poultry. Often fowls are found dead under the perch. . The really practical point when such a case occurs is to examine the condition of the rest of the stock, and ta consider whether feeding is too high. A sudden appearance of giddiness or staggering in a previously healthy bird may bo an impending attack, which may possibly be warded off by an immediate brisk aperient of 15 grains of jalop, and one grain calomel, with quiet and low feeding for a few days. If a.bird falls down in an unconscious state lift the wing, and push tho point of a penknife (a lancet is better, but seldom at hand) longitudually into a large-vein, which will bo seen. When consciousness returns, put the finger ou the wound till some styptic can be applied, and keep the fowl in a dark coop on low diet for several days. Treatment is not, however, always successful, but the real .thing to do ie to look to the remainder of the. birds.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6660, 6 November 1908, Page 3
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174APOPLEXY. New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6660, 6 November 1908, Page 3
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