74 FLUX VERMIN INFIRMARY CHIP. 



fowls are much subject. The FLUX, and its oppo- 

 site, CONSTIPATION. Cure the first with good solid 

 food ; the other with scalded bran or pollard, mixed 

 with flet or skimmed milk, or pot-liquor, a small 

 quantity of sulphur being added, if needful. VER- 

 MIN, generally the consequence of low keep, and 

 want of cleanliness. The remedy obvious ; not to 

 forget sand and ashes for the fowls to roll in. 



But the chief disease to which chickens and fowls 

 are liable, originates in changes of weather, and the 

 variation of temperature ; and when the malady be- 

 comes confirmed, with running at the nostrils, swollen 

 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 INFIRMARY 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 plu- 

 mage vanishes, and they put on their long great coat, 

 or rather shroud, and sit chipping, pining, and dying 

 in corners ; always apparently in torture, from a 

 sense of cold, although to the touch they seem in a 

 high state of fever. This disease seldom admits of 

 remedy ; but I have tried mustard in water, crams, 



