HOW NOT TO DRENCH LAMBS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVII, Issue 203, 28 August 1913, Page 6

HOW NOT TO DRENCH LAMBS.

A WARNING TO SHEEE^WNESS

• IGorerriment vetearinary- tifficer, whov. recently yistted a. - iarm. for the purpose of assisting the owner in determining the cause, of some mortality which had occurred, among lambs, makes the following remarks in his report upon the matter :— "In. conversation with Mr — I iearned that he had been r drenching the lambs with turpentine and linseedoil, and that nearly all—possibly all— of-the deatKs had occurred very shortly after drenching; also that he had used a pewter syringe to drench with, and believed in doing it quickly, and with force." In these days it seems difficult to realise how anj^ man could imagine that to force liquid medicine down the throat through, the medium of a syringe is a right and proper way of administering it.. It is an.excellent way of forcing the liquid into the windpipe and killing the patient, and I have no doubt but that these lambs were in this way killed by the owner. "With sheep and lambs, as with other animals, liquid medicine- should be given/slowly and carefully, a small quantity only being quietly poured into the mouth at a time, and c#re being i^aken to -pour in no more until that is properly swallowed. The head should be held, by the upper' jaw ( only, slightly above the horizontal line (care being taken not to compress the jipstrils); and the tongue left quite |ree.