Mixture from rhinitis.

Diseases of hens.

It keeps on raining, the weather is getting cooler and soon it will be quite cold. Hens, like people, are often in poor health in this period of transition from heat to cold.

Prophylactic measures.

What prophylactic measures to take and what to treat crested hens with?

In autumn and in winter hens often have inflammation of throat, trachea, lungs. A bird pants with an open beak, coughs, tries to become free from the films and mucus that accumulated in respiratory organs. It needs treatment.

For this purpose at night spray the "Antiseptol" preparation in the poultry-house with the help of pulverizer or common garden sprinkler. It is prepared in the following way: in 2 or 3 litres of hot water 350 grams of soda ash should be dissolved and separately in 7 litres of hot water 250 grams of chloride lime should be dissolved. Before using the settled solutions are mixed and dissolved with water in the proportion of 1:1 so as to avoid mucous coat burns that the birds can get.

Rhinitis is rather frequent disease that hens have. In hard cases a bird's head swells, eyes come out, sticky liquid runs out of nostrils if to push on the beak. At this rhinitis is accompanied with an eye disease, too. If measures are not taken in time, the hen can become blind, lose weight and die. The measures are as follows.

Settle out ill hens from the main flock. Disinfect the equipment. Wash the drinking troughs and feedboxes with the soda ash solution or with chloride lime first, then with common tap water or with well water. Prepare "Antiseptol" and put it in the bird's nostrils in one or two drops.

Other diseases.

Unfortunately, diseases of hens are not confined to the cold. Birds can also have the inflammation of the craw, the bowels and the stomach.

The cause of disease is bad or frozen food, the availability of dry nonground hay and grain in the food mixture, absolutely unnecessary admixture of sand.

It leads to detention of food in the craw, the bird loses appetite, it ruffles up, combs of some hens even become blue.

To prevent this disease, the hens are given oats water, sour milk, couched grain. For unlimited drinking they are given the one percent solution of potassium permanganate, Rivanol, baking soda.

Inflammation of bowels and stomach is taking its course especially heavily against the background of the lack of vitamins. The disease prophylaxis is the correct organization of feeding the birds with sound grain. Their feed can include fried or germinating seed, ground dried crust, grated carrots, cabbage leaves.