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better to look for a preventative, as these birds cannot 

 stand much handling when they are not well. 



Cold or roup is usually brought on through the birds 

 being kept too warm at night, then allowed out in the 

 wet grass in the morning. When young pheasants are 

 drooping their wings or opening their mouth they should 

 always be noticed particularly, and if there is any 

 discharge from the nostrils it should be removed or it 

 may accumulate, but if the roup powders are given it is 

 very seldom anything of this occurs. Should it turn to 

 diphtheric roup the birds are usually dead in two or three 

 days. That is, when there are white spots on the tongue 

 and fungus matter corrodes round the windpipe and 

 chokes them. 



Congestion of the lungs is brought on much in the 

 same way as roup, in fact, the pheasants are more subject 

 to congested lungs than they are roup, it is through 

 shutting them up too warm at night, and allowing them 

 out first thing in the morning before sunrise, while the 

 dew is on the grass. (The greatest preventative of this 

 is the little covered run mentioned in the chapter on 

 coops and runs). 



As a rule, when pheasants' lungs become congested 

 they do not live more than two or three hours. I never 

 noticed these birds dying from this complaint so particularly 

 till the last few years. I have had many sent to me 

 for post-mortem examination. If more care were taken, a 

 great many more pheasants might be reared than there 

 are. Adult pheasants are very hardy, nothing seems to 

 ail them except liver disease. That is a tuberculous 

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