Diarrhea

Other Names


dysentery, scouring


Organism or Mechanism


Preventative Measures


• Provide grit and greens.


Management Treatments

• Spread lime on yards.


Physical Treatments

• Add charcoal to mash (1 oz./quart of feed).
• Give electrolytes and sugar water (10 oz/gal) in drinking water.


Nutritional Treatments

• Feed mash of ground oats, wheat bran, and corn meal.
• For chicks feed raisins, grated raw apples, and dried or fresh bilberries.


Herbal Treatments

• For hens give warm milk with powdered slippery elm bark and honey 3X daily.
• For chicks fast ½ day then feed diet of milk, honey, slippery elm, dill, and arrowroot for 1 ½ days.


Homeopathic Treatments
 
• Ipecac 12 pellets in drinking water or wet mash
 • If due to bad food give Arsenicum or Chamomilla. (2) or Nux Vomica (20)
• For pasty white discharge give Carbo veg.