Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1915 — Poultry Remedies [ARTICLE]

Poultry Remedies

It is claimed that nux vomica 4s a specific for liver complaint in fowls, if taken in time. The dose, is given in homeopathic form, allowing, six pills three times a day to a large: fowl, and less to a smaller one. The following formula for roup pills ’ is recommended: Half a dram eadrtof cayenne pepper, ginger, mustard; half nunca of plain vaseline or dear lard; mix thoroughly and add -enough flour to make a ioughdcwgh. : Make.-into pills the size of a pea. Dose, one each night The following is said to be the recipe for making .Vale’s roup pills, a poptear English remedy: Hydrastin, 2 grains; sulphate of iron (dried) and sulphate of copper, 3 grains of each; powdered capsicum, 12 grains; oil of copaiba, 20 20 drops. Venetian turpentine and cili cined magnesia, of each enough to ‘ make 24 pills. Dose, for adult fowls, one or two pills night and morning. Diseases of the liver are caused by overfeeding of fat-producing “food or by the use of too much spice or stimulat- : ing substances. This patricular trouble ’ is pypertrophy of the liver, which Is an ' enlargement of that organ, and is often ; found in hens kept over the second ’ winter. It is due to feeding too much fatty food, combined with a lack of ' exercise. In the early stages the disease may be arrested by feeding lightly on bran mashes and green food, and to each quart of drinking water ‘ adding one-half teaspoonful of muriate of ammonia.