76 PIGEONS ROUP WOUNDS. 



spheric cause. This symptom was observed very 

 prevalent among them during the very variable sum- 

 mer, 1821. 



The head being raw, and the eyes blinded from 

 fighting, wash the eyes as before directed, and the 

 head, which, after washing, may be alternately, ac. 

 cording to need, dressed with fresh butter, and with 

 brandy, in which has been infused two or three 

 drops of laudanum. A hen sate about in corners, 

 and neither ate, drank, nor evacuated, yet looked 

 full and not diseased. Her CROP was totally ob- 

 structed. On an incision being made from the bot- 

 tom upwards, a quantity of new beans was found, 

 which had vegetated. The wound being stitched 

 properly, immediately healed, and the hen suffered 

 little inconvenience. A cock's SPURS being too long, 

 impeding his walk, and wounding his legs, they 

 should be cut carefully with a sharp pen-knife, but 

 not too near the quick, every three months. 



PIGEONS, also, are subject to the ROUP, under- 

 standing by that term, a cold, or catarrh, the symp- 

 toms of which are too visible in the miserble crea- 

 tures exposed to sale hung up in baskets, in all 

 weathers and currents of air. Garlic in pills, and 

 rue given in water, are the general remedies. Shel- 

 tered places, with room for exercise, and warm 

 seeds, or cordial horse-ball in their food, form the 

 best dependence. They are in course most liable 

 at MOULTING TIME, a season at which all kinds of 

 poultry should be carefully sheltered and attended. 



WOUNDS upon the head, or the WATTLES of 

 Carriers and Barbs, to be treated as already directed 



