82 FLUX VERMIN INFIRMARY ABSCESS CHIP. 



fowls are much subject. The FLUX, and its opposite, 

 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. VERMIN, gene- 

 rally the consequent of low keep, and want of clean- 

 liness. 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. In cases of ABSCESS, open 

 with a pair of scissors, pressing out the matter with 

 the fingers ; our elders were in the habit of giving 

 lettuce chopped small, mixed with bran steeped with 

 honey : but in a bad case much ought not to be ex- 

 pected from the exhibition of lettuce, the superior 

 efficacy of sulphur or calomel would be required. 



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 



