Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; domesticfowlorna00rich Year: 1852 DOMESTIC FOWL. OUT.—Its effects are obvious. Pellets of Colchicum may be used; but if -you had, as you should have done, killed your fowl before they became so olf, it would have been more rational. They are now past use. Sulphur mJFj' be found useful. Corns.—These may generally be extracted with the point of a penknife. If ulcer^|:ed, aswillbften occur when negleoted, touch with lunar caustic, and you may thus supcceed in establishing he/lthy granulations. CosTivENESs.—Tfiis af
Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; domesticfowlorna00rich Year: 1852 DOMESTIC FOWL. OUT.—Its effects are obvious. Pellets of Colchicum may be used; but if -you had, as you should have done, killed your fowl before they became so olf, it would have been more rational. They are now past use. Sulphur mJFj' be found useful. Corns.—These may generally be extracted with the point of a penknife. If ulcer^|:ed, aswillbften occur when negleoted, touch with lunar caustic, and you may thus supcceed in establishing he/lthy granulations. CosTivENESs.—Tfiis affectiou will, in ^neral, yield to castor-oil and burnt butter. The Uiet should be sparing/ Thin porridge will be found useful. ~- j n In the case of fractures, put the fowlyto death without loss of time. The same may be said o^ bruises. By thi»)^u not merely avoid some loss, but save the poor bird niuch suffering. / ;' The accidental strijpping of the fe^tMrs must not be confounded with the mangy affection already treated of. /TJh^ difference will be seen by examin- ing the state of the skin where it \k eAosed. Ulcers may be kept clean, dresjBed Jwith a little lard, or washed with a weak solution of sugar ot lead, a/thmr aspect indicates. I^ sluggish, touch with bluestone. ^ / :i\ [APT] Cf'POXIZING The objects proposed in converting a cock into a capon are the following: —his natural fierceness is quelled;\he. becomes placid and peaceful; his pugnacity has deserted him ; he no lok^r seeks the company of the hens ; he grows to a far larger size than he otherwise would have done ,• he acquires flesh with much greater rapidity, and that flesh is peculiarly white, firm, and succulent, and even the fat is perfectly destitute of rankness. To these ad- vantages another may, perhaps, be added—viz., the capon may, by a little management, be converted into an admirable nurse, and will be found par- ticularly valuable, in this respect, to parties using the eccalobeion, or hat
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