In answer to our correspondent's inquiry for information, in relation to the disease of fowls, we re-publish the following communication on this subject, from Dr. Phinney, vol. 1. No. 12, of the Farmer. We should be happy to hear from anyone who can give us further information :
Messrs. EDITORS:—let may surprise you that a physician should undertake to prescribe for anything but human beings; but those of us who take an interest in our profession are apt to notice disease wherever we may see it.
The mortality amongst poultry has long attracted my attention, and, knowing their great value in this country, I was, out of mere curiosity, led to investigate the matter by repeated dissections of those that have died.
I found they all had inflammation, and in most cases ulceration of the crops and bowels. This inflammation may exist for some time and attract little notice, but when the ulceration has progressed so far as as to penetrate the crop or the bowels, then the fowl dies almost instantaneously.
Having ascertained this, I next wished to know what would cure such a state, and I gave with success sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) in doses of from one-twelfth to one-twentieth of a grain twice a day. The medicine may also be made into a pill, with bread, and either fed to the chicken or forced down its throat.
Hoping I may have given some useful information to the subscribers of your valuable journal, I remain, &c, J. B. Phinney,
I found this very interesting as someone has suggested that to get an Araucana's eggs bluer than natural, adding Copper Sulfate to their diet as a an alternative to having them eat lots of Quinoa, which is native to the natural environs and seems to have lots of natural copper sulfate.
I found only one place that sold organic Quinoa in large quantities, i.e. other than a packet or two, and that was Wild Seed Company in Oregon.
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