Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1912 — COMBATING LICE IN CHICKS [ARTICLE]

COMBATING LICE IN CHICKS

- ' I . Small Quantity of Olive Oil Rubbed on Fowl’s Head Will Prove Quite Effectual.

If fowls are healthy, the premises kept clean, and a ‘diist bath or ashes piovided, lice rarely get the upper hand, it. being through the brood hens, transmitting them to the chickens, that most harm ensues. A hen with many or few lice on her 'when sitting i transmits them to the chickens immediately they are hatched.* They are to be found stationary on the chicken’s head, above the beak and eyes, and in a few days when they get more plentiful, are to be found behind and on top of head and throat. A simple and effective treatment adopted by the government,station In New South Wales is to place a small quantity of olive oil in a sauder, and the day after hatching dip the fing'er in the oil aqd (thoroughly rub it into the fluff of the head and under the throat. This will kill the lice" if present and if repeated the second or third day there will be little fear of any escaping. When a week or ten days old the chickens should be examined again and if any of the vermin are found at this age a little kerosene can be added to the olive oil. It is best to annolnt all chickens with the oil immediately after 'they are hatched, such being a sure preventive of the scourge.