Notes on Diseases of Swine, Sheep, Poultry and the Dog: Cause, Symptoms and Treatments

Charles James Korinek

Notes on Diseases of Swine, Sheep, Poultry and the Dog

Cause, Symptoms and Treatments

Published by Good Press, 2022

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PREFACE

CHAPTER I.

HOG REGULATOR AND TONIC.

ABORTION.

ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINE TO HOGS.

BAG INFLAMMATION.

BLACK TOOTH.

BLOOD POISONING. (Pyemia Septicemia)

BRONCHITIS.

CASTRATION.

CHOKING.

COLD IN THE HEAD. (Nasal Catarrh)

DIARRHOEA IN YOUNG PIGS. (Scours)

HOG CHOLERA. (Swine Fever)

INDIGESTION.

JAUNDICE. (Yellows)

KIDNEY CONGESTION.

KIDNEY WORM.

LICE ON HOGS.

LUNG FEVER. (Inflammation of the Lungs)

LUNG WORMS.

MANGE.

NAVEL RUPTURE. (Navel or Umbilical)

NETTLE RASH. (Urticaira)

PARALYSIS OF THE HIND QUARTERS.

PILES. (Prolapse of the Anus)

PIN WORMS.

PLEURISY.

RHEUMATISM.

RICKETS.

ROUND WORMS.

RUPTURE. (Scrotal or Inguinal)

SORE FEET.

SORE MOUTH.

SOWS EATING THEIR YOUNG.

SUN OR HEAT STROKE.

THORN-HEADED WORMS.

THUMPS.

WHIP WORM.

PREFACE

CHAPTER II.

ABORTION.

BLACK SCOURS. (Verminous Gastritis—Strongylosis)

CATARRH. (Cold in the Head)

DIARRHOEA. (Dysentery)

FOOT ROT. (Foul in the Foot)

FORAGE POISONING.

GARGET. (Congestion and Inflammation of the Udder)

GID. (Sturdy)

GRUBS IN THE HEAD. (Head Maggot)

HOVEN. (Bloating—Acute Tympanites—Acute Indigestion)

INDIGESTION. (Dyspepsia)

JAUNDICE. (Liver Congestion—Inflammation of the Liver)

LIVER FLUKE.

LUNG FEVER. (Pneumonia—Congestion of the Lungs—Pulmonary Apoplexy)

LUNG WORMS, LAMB DISEASE. (Verminous Bronchitis)

SCAB. (Mange)

TICK. (Louse Fly)

PREFACE

CHAPTER III.

AIR SAC MITE.

APOPLEXY. (Hemorrhage of the Brain)

BALDNESS. (Favus)

BEAK AND THROAT OBSTRUCTION.

BLACKHEAD. (Infectious Entero Hepatitis of Turkeys)

BODY LICE.

BRONCHITIS.

BUMBLE FOOT. (Corns—Deep Bruises—Abscesses)

CATARRH.

CHICKEN POX. (Sore Head—Warts)

CONGESTION OF THE LIVER.

CONGESTION OF THE LUNGS. (Pulmonary Congestion)

CONSTIPATION. (Intestinal Obstruction)

CROP IMPACTION. (Obstruction, Paralysis, Inflammation, Catarrh)

DIARRHOEA. (Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh—Enteritis)

DIPHTHERETIC ROUP. (Diphtheria)

DOUBLE-YOLK EGGS.

DROPSY. (Ascites)

EGG BOUND. (Difficult Laying; Obstruction of the Oviduct)

EGG EATING.

EGGS WITHOUT SHELLS. (Soft-Shelled Eggs)

FEATHER PULLING. (Feather Eating)

GAPES. (Verminous Trachea Bronchitis)

HEAD LICE.

HOW TO FEED YOUNG POULTRY.

INCOMPLETE EGG. (Abortion)

JAUNDICE.

MANGE. (Scabies of the Body)

PIP. (Inflammation of the Mouth)

RED MITE.

RHEUMATISM. (Leg Weakness—Gout—Paralysis)

SCALY LEG. (Scabies)

SORE MOUTH. (Aphtha; Thrush)

TUBERCULOSIS.

VENT GLEET.

WHITE DIARRHOEA. (Fowl Cholera)

WORMS.

PREFACE

CHAPTER IV.

ABSCESSES OF THE EAR. (Haematoma)

APOPLEXY (Congestion of the Brain)

ASTHMA

BARRENNESS

BRONCHITIS

BURNS AND SCALDS

CANKER OF THE EAR

CATARRH (Cold in the Head)

CHOREA (St. Vitus Dance)

COLIC

CONSTIPATION

DIARRHOEA AND DYSENTERY

DISTEMPER

ECZEMA (Surfeit)

EYE INJURIES (Conjunctivitis)

FITS (Epilepsy)

FRACTURES (Bone Fractures)

GOITER (Bronchocele)

INDIGESTION (Dyspepsia)

JAUNDICE (Liver Congestion)

LUNG FEVER (Congestion of the Lungs—Pneumonia)

MAMMITIS (Garget, or Inflammation of the Udder)

MANGE

PLEURISY

PILES (Prolapse of the Rectum)

RABIES (Mad Dog)

RHEUMATISM (Articular and Muscular)

RICKETS

RINGWORM

ROUNDWORMS (Maw Worms)

SORE THROAT (Pharyngitis—Laryngitis)

TAPEWORM (Tenia Marginata)

VOMITION

WOUNDS

INDEX

Swine

Sheep

Fowl

Dog

PREFACE

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This chapter on diseases of swine has been written with the purpose of placing in the hands of Students and the Veterinary Profession, a book of practical worth; hence, all unnecessary technical language or terms have been eliminated and only such language used as all may read and understand.

The treatment recommended in each disease is one I have used and found efficient in my many years of practice as a Veterinary Surgeon.

If my readers will study the following chapter carefully, they will save much unnecessary loss to the swine industry and be of great value to the community in which they reside.

Charles J. Korinek, V. S.

CHAPTER I.

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HOG REGULATOR AND TONIC.

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Nux Vomica, one pound; Hardwood Charcoal, two pounds; Sulphur, two pounds; Common Salt, three pounds; Sulphide of Antimony, one and one-half pounds; Glauber Salts, two pounds; Bicarbonate of Soda, four pounds; Hyposulphite of Soda, four pounds; Nitrate of Potash, one pound; Quassia, one-half pound; Gentian Root, one pound; Iron Sulphate, one pound; pulverize and mix well.

To every one hundred pounds of hog weight, give one tablespoonful in feed or swill once or twice daily. For hogs weighing two hundred pounds, the dose would be two tablespoonfuls; for a hog weighing fifty pounds, one-half tablespoonful.

Hogs, like other animals, require tonics, bowel regulators and worm expellers. For these purposes, I have prescribed under a number of the diseases of hogs, which I cover in this chapter, the above general tonic and regulator which I have used in my personal practice with marked success, especially serving the purpose of aiding hogs in the convalescence from debilitating diseases and in their recovery from a general run-down condition.

Aside from its general tonic and regulative effect, this prescription contains nerve tonics, intestinal antiseptics, laxatives, worm expellers, and aids digestion, etc.

If regularly given to hogs, and sanitary conditions are maintained, this tonic and regulator will largely fortify them against contagious diseases.

ABORTION.

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Cause.

—Sows may abort at any state of pregnancy by slipping, falling, receiving kicks, or by being caught while crawling through or under fences. Sows may also abort when allowed to crawl into quarters where there are other hogs. Contagious diseases, such as Cholera and Pleuropneumonia also produce abortion. There is also a contagious form of abortion in sows, but this is very uncommon, as the disease spreads very slowly.

Symptoms.

—There is no warning given, as a rule; the sows expel their pigs before any signs of abortion are noticed.

In other cases the sows refuse to eat, become uneasy, shivering and trembling of the muscles, and straining or labor pains are noticed. As a rule, when a sow aborts, she will not prepare a bed, as she would normally.

Treatment.

—Preventive is the only safe and sure treatment, although when the first signs of abortion appear, and there are no signs of the membranes coming away, remove the sow to quiet, warm, clean quarters by herself, and if straining, give one dram of Chloral-Hydrate in her drinking water every two or three hours.

When a sow aborts, burn the pigs and afterbirth, and disinfect the pens with a Coal Tar disinfectant. Keep this up for several days, and do not breed until all discharges from the vagina have ceased flowing.

ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICINE TO HOGS.

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To administer medicine to hogs may seem easy, but, nevertheless, it is a difficult task. Never lay a hog on his back to drench him, as in so doing there is great danger of strangling. The proper method is to stand or set him on end, holding him up by the ears, and by the use of a bottle with a piece of hose drawn over its neck, give the medicine very slowly, so as not to allow a large quantity to accumulate in the mouth or throat at one time. There is always danger of some of the liquid escaping into the lungs and causing the hog to strangle, and thus it may produce pneumonia. However, this is the best method of giving hogs medicine by force.

Hogs will generally take medicine in their feed or drinking water, unless they are very sick, or the medicine is extremely disagreeable to the taste.

BAG INFLAMMATION.

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Cause.

—Injuries, obstructed teats, accumulation of milk in the sow’s bag after the loss of part or all of her litter. Difficult birth, slight wounds in the bag permit invasion of germs, which is frequently the common cause of bag inflammation.

Symptoms.

—Heat, pain and swelling in one or more teats. The general body temperature is elevated one or two degrees above normal. The sow perhaps refuses her feed, although she will drink water in large quantities.

Treatment.

—Feed soft, sloppy food and vegetables. Give Epsom Salts, two to four ounces, in milk or feed. It is also well to milk the sow by hand, relieving her of the milk three or four times a day. This is very necessary. Camphorated Oil is very soothing, and I would recommend its use freely over affected teats.

BLACK TOOTH.

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Cause.

—Black Tooth, so called in swine, is principally due to injuries to the teeth received by chewing hard matter, such as bone, etc., which causes them to decay.

Symptoms.

—Toothache. Toothache in swine is similar to that exhibited by man, in showing loss of appetite, salivation, or slobbering, hanging the head mostly to the side which is affected, loss of fear of man, and offensive breath. If the hogs are fed on strongly acid food for any length of time, their teeth may become dark colored. As the teeth are not materially injured, so long as decayed tooth substance cannot be noticed, and while the appetite and chewing facilities of the hog do not appear to be diminished, no interference will be necessary.

It is customary with some people to examine the teeth of hogs, and if one tooth is found darker colored than the others, it is supposed to be the cause of the hog not doing well, if he is in poor condition, and the tooth is hammered off flush with the jaw, leaving the broken roots, lacerated gums and nerves to increase the hog’s suffering. If the hog recovers, it is often concluded that this was a case of Black Tooth.

My advice is, if you are determined to have the tooth out, extract it properly. Do not break it off. When your hogs are not thriving, give them the regulator and tonic prescribed on the first page of this chapter.

BLOOD POISONING.

(Pyemia Septicemia)

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Cause.

—Due to the toxic substance produced by germs that invade wounds, bruises, abscesses, or womb following farrowing, if lacerated.

Symptoms.

—The seat of injury becomes swollen, pus may adhere to the hair, temperature elevated, appetite poor, hog moves about very slowly, becomes separated from the rest of the drove, lies around in some cool, quiet place, eventually becomes very weak and poor and dies, if good attention is not given.

Treatment.

—Separate from the