The game cock: being a practical treatise on breeding, rearing, training, feeding, trimming, mains, heeling, spurs, etc. .. by James Ed

Author:James, Ed. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Cockfighting
Publisher: New York, E. James
Published: 1873-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

is better. Secure it so that it cannot come off; let it remain so for one or two weeks, then take it off and yon will find the foot nearly well.

INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE.

Symptoms. —Small abscesses are formed on the cornea, which are filled with a white colored pus. The eye becomes inflamed, the lids swelling to a great extent, and a coagulable matter, like the white of an egg f accumulates beneath the swelling.

Treatment. —Bathe the head and throat with hot salted water, then remove any pus that has accumulated in the eye, after which wash the eye out by holding the lids open and fill the eye up with fine table salt. Pour down the fowl's throat half teaspoonful of fine, dry, black pepper. Hepeat this treatmeat once a day, keeping the fowl in a warm, dry place, and place him in the sun for a few hours every day.

INDIGESTION. •

Treatment. —Exercise the fowl daily, give him less food and a large pill, made of Cayenne pepper one part, prepared chalk one part, pulverized gentian two parts, pulverized charcoal two parts, mixed into a paste with lard. Feed with a baked cake composed of corn meal, crumbs of bread and egg soaked in good ale.

COSTIYENESS.

Treatment. —Give as much pulverized rhubarb as will lay on a two cent piece, to open the bowels.

DIARRHOEA.

Symptoms. —Diarrhoea resembles the yolk of a stale egg sticking to the feathers near the vent.

Treatment. —Physic with pulverized rhubarb as much as will lay on a silver quarter. Then give daily for several days the following pill:—Prepared chalk three parts, cayenne pepper one part, pulverized gentian one part, pulverized charcoal one part, mixed with lard or butter. The pill should be the size of a common marble. Keep the fowl in a warm place for a few days, after which let him run at large in the sunshine.

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