Answer:

The best thing to do is to adopt preventive measures, by confining all the affected chicks where they cannot mingle with the remainder of the flock.

This disease is scattered by the fowls coming in contact with the worms that have been coughed up by the afflicted chicks and that have found lodgment in feeding and drinking vessels or on the ground itself.

The primary cause is often the eating of angle worms, although in some localities these worms do not affect the chicks.

The runs and houses in which the chicks have been confined should be well cleaned and disinfected with a 5 per cent solution of carbolic acid.

For treatment of the afflicted birds take a feather strip off the web to within an inch of the end, and moisten it well with oil of turpentine. Hold the chick firmly in the hand, force the mouth open and when the wind-pipe is open for breathing insert the feather, giving it a quick turn and removing it promptly.

Two or three applications of this will bring the chicks around all right.

A good internal treatment is two or three feeds of garlic mixed with soft feed in a proportion of one good-sized bulb of garlic to about ten chicks.

Camphor in the form of pills is also a good remedy, a dose being one-half to one grain twice a day.