22i The Roup or CataiTh — Infirmary. 



But the chief disease to which chickens 

 and fowls are hable, originates in changes 

 of weather, and the variation of tempera- 

 ture, and when the malady becomes con- 

 firmed, with running at the nostrils, swol- 

 len eyes, and other well known symptoms, 

 they are termed roupy. The discharge 

 becoming fetid, like the glanders in horses, 

 the disease is supposed to have arrived at 

 the stage of infection ; and whether so or 

 not, it is certainly proper, for cleanliness 

 sake, to separate the diseased from the 

 healthy, whence the necessity of an infir- 

 mary in a regular poultry establishment. 

 Roupy hens seldom lay, and their eggs are 

 scarcely wholesome. The eggs taken from 

 a hen which died of the roup, were black, 

 and in a state of putrefaction. 



Chickens are frequently, and chiefly in 

 bad weather, seized with the chip, in 

 about three weeks from their hatching, 

 when all their beauty of plumage vanishes, 

 and they put on their long great coat, or 

 rather shroud, and ^\i cJiippmg > pining, and 

 dying in corners ; always apparently in 



