CURES FOR ROUP AND PIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 2661, 15 March 1905, Page 58

CURES FOR ROUP AND PIP.

Mr A. W. Hildner, an American poultryman, gives the following information as to his own experience with these troubles: — — How Roup Was Successfully Treated. — Although my place is small for so many birds, they have been singularly free from disease. Last year they were inclined to be roupy. I took them in hand at the start and did not lose a bird. I swabed their throats with pcrnitrate of iron [If not obtainable use perehloride of iron. — Ed.] and peroxide of hydrogen, and gave them, internally in the form of pills ; powdered eapsiei lgr, chini sulph. quinine Igr. Each, pill was given twice a day for three days, soft food twice, small grain once a day, and I kept ferri sulph. (sulphate of iron) in water constantly, which put a stop to thei roup. —Cured Fowl« of Pip.— This year the eggs, were not very fertile until th<=> latter part of April (October in New Zealand). I stopped hatching at the end of June (December), when a peculiar state of affairs set in. All the fowls looked very dumpy, and, upon examination, I found about half had pip. I removed thiss with a needle, stuck into a piece of wood for a handle, but in about four weeks thereafter the same conditions prevailed. Well, sir, I ploughed up all tho runs, saturated them with air-slacked lime and cre-somulsion (1 to 50 parts lime), turned the hose on inside of the building, thoroughly scrubbing it. I did not whitewash, but disinfected thoroughly with a weak solution of the above disinfectant (creolin). I kept them en the grass, not allowing them in the runs, bufc they did not seeui to improve, ond stopped growing. They looked about as lousy a bunch of chicks as I ever had to deal with. I killed a few and found the organs normal, but there were some small red worms abouft the size and thickness of an ordinary pin in the rectum. Here the pharmaceutical department was again called into f>lay. I gave them in tablet form, santonine lei% areca nut lgr, calomel l-10gr ; one tablet; each day for a week, and net one of them has been sick since.