Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — Chicken Diseases. [ARTICLE]

Chicken Diseases.

. HAPKS. Supposed by some to be caused by a p.irasite which infests lie head of young chicks', but the theory generally -Accepted is tba* it is picked from the ground in a larral 1 state, hatch and pass through another change in the wind.pipe and again return to the ground. The roicrosc -pe reveals them as minute forked worms. They irri-> tate the chiih very much and frequently cau>e death. I hare never know it where the Douglas mixture was freely u<ed, or where a small lump of Camphor was kept in their drinking vessels. It chicks become infested, kill and burn, or remove from the farm. If valu »fcle enough to justify the trouble, plnck the web from both sides of a feather, leaving the tin, which web with a solution of 2u drop* carbolic acid and 1 ox of glycerine; run the feather down the wind pipe, not the throat. (Aeesnphngu«),*give it three or four limes and withdtaw qtticMy; repeat a few note* with a new feather. The acid paralysis and the glycerine sticks the worms to the feather so they can !>c drawn out. In fowls, no matter for what disease, always burh all matter, etc., to prevent exposure to the rest.