CROUP IN SHEEP.
According to Roche Lubin croup is sometimes observed in spring in lambs and hogs. The common cause is “the shutting up of the animals for the whole twenty-four hours in a hot confined place, the floor of which is covered by a fine dust, and the air loaded with the same, owing to the jostling of the sheep together, the effects being intensified by the weight of the fleeces.”
The disease is manifested by constant working of the jaws, extreme tension of the neck, abundant salivation, respiration hurried and whistling, extreme pain and threatened suffocation when the slightest pressure is made on the throat, and refusal of all food liquid or solid. The weak, hacking, convulsive cough is associated with the discharge of a whitish glairy mucus by the nose until the third or fourth day when false membranes may be expected.
Treatment is like that for the ox, medicine being given in about one-fifth of the doses.