THE VETERINARIAN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 741, 14 May 1886, Page 15

THE VETERINARIAN.

Hoose in Cattle — * X.Y.’ inquires whether cows suffer from hoose ? And he . farther asks, if his first question is answered in the affirmative, whether the same treatment is applicable both to cows and calves when so suffering ? My own experience tolls me that both grown-up cattle and young stock, as also sheep and lambs are liable to take up, whilst grazing out in the pastures, the germs of animaleulse which afterwards become developed into living worms. In the case of fullgrown animals these entozoa are frequently both voided in the excrement and coughed up, without much appreciable damage to the bodies of the sheep and cattle. There has been a temporary and local irritation of the throat and gullet, and sometimes of the whole intestinal canal, in which latter case a staring coat and lack of thriftiness are very evident. It is seldom that death occurs from mischief caused by thread-worms when the animals affected are more than a year old. Not '.infrequently both edves and lambs die. The best mode of treatment, in all cases, is to feed freely with linseed or other cake rich in oil. I believe there need be no fumigation with sulphur or drenching with turpentine if plenty of oil be taken with the food. A friend once told me that his calves had got a severe attack of hoose. ‘ Give them 1 lb of linseed cake per day,’ I said. ‘ I am giving them that.’ Then give them 2 lb,’ I replied. lie did so, with great success. * Y. Y.’ would cure his cows in ten days by giving 5 lb each par day. —T. C. S. ‘ Parrot Mouth.’ —A correspondent writes : —I have on two or three ocea ions read of a horse being parrot mouthed, and, as I have never, to my knowledge, seen one with this disease or malformation, or whatever it may be, I am anxious to knnv what it is, but presume it is some abnormal conoitii n of the 'mouth. The condition known as ‘parrot-moutc ’ is one in which the lower jaw is considerably shorter than the upper, so that the incisor teeth of the latter, instead of meeting those of the lower jaw, overhang them, and gro w to a great length, thus making the animal’s mouth similar iu shape to that of a parrot; hence the name ‘ parrot-moutb.’ This affliction is a great drawback, because it prevents animals so constituted from being able to graze. — Agricultural Gazette.