. The American poulterer's companion: : a practical treatise on the breeding, rearing, fattening, and general management of the various species of domestic poultry, : with illustrations, and portraits of fowls taken from life. . f his cut, illustrating the worm magnified, and thenatural size. And although this disease, as well asthe remedy, has been fully detailed by Mr. West-fall, still it contains some new ideas, and throws newlight on the subject, which fully establishes the truthof the remarks of Mr. Westfall. GAPES IN CHICKENS. Messrs. Editors—<From all I have seen andheard on the subj
. The American poulterer's companion: : a practical treatise on the breeding, rearing, fattening, and general management of the various species of domestic poultry, : with illustrations, and portraits of fowls taken from life. . f his cut, illustrating the worm magnified, and thenatural size. And although this disease, as well asthe remedy, has been fully detailed by Mr. West-fall, still it contains some new ideas, and throws newlight on the subject, which fully establishes the truthof the remarks of Mr. Westfall. GAPES IN CHICKENS. Messrs. Editors—<From all I have seen andheard on the subject of what is called the gapes inchickens, it is a disease which is not generally un-derstood. I shall therefore give you my opinion onits nature and cure. This spring, having my chick-ens attacked as usual with the gapes, I dissected onethat died, and found its bronchus, or windpipe (notthe throat), filled with small red worms from half tothree-quarters of an inch long. This satisfied methat any particular course of feeding or medicinegiven would not reach the disease. I therefore tooka quill from a hens wing, stripped off the featherswithin an inch and a half of the end, trimmed it off 356 DISEASES OF POULTRYF12 with a scissors to about half an inch wide, pointing itat the lower end. I then tied the ends of the wingsto the legs of the chicken affected, to prevent its strug-gling; placed its legs between my knees, held itstongue between the thumb and fore-finger of the lefthand, and with the right, inserted the trimmed fea-ther in the windpipe (the opening of which lies atthe root of the tongue); when the chicken opened it DISEASES OF POULTRY. 357 to breathe, pushed it down gently as far as it wouldgo (which is where the windpipe branches off to thelobes of the lungs, below which I have never de-tected the insect), and twisted it round as I pulled itout, which would generally bring up or loosen all theworms, so that the chicken would cough them out; ifnot, I would repe
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