VETERINARY QUERIES,

Otago Witness, Issue 1920, 4 December 1890, Page 22

VETERINARY QUERIES,

[Answered by a qualified Veterinary Surgeon.— Queries must be received by Monday night to ensure reply in the succeeding issue.] B, B.— Your mare would require to be turned out four or five months, and blistered during that time. q. yf —The enlargement on your foal's neck and shoulder may either be a malformation or a tumour. In either case it Is better to leave it until it becomes fully developed, and suitable treatment may then be applied. J. Q-. G.— The symptoms you give are common to co many disease* and Accidents that it would be necessary to have him examined by a veterinary expert and treated accordingly. D. P. L.— lt is possible that a mare's bladder may become inverted during foaling, but it it very Improbable. Had tuoh been the owe death would

have set in earlier than it did. It was more likely to have been the uterus, or part of it, and should have been returned into its place by a professional expert. A. B. O.— lt would be unwise to cay what was the ailment attacking your mare until the diagnosis was made by a veterinary surgeon, but if the like should occur again administer one bottle of linseed oil and a glass of whisky. If the symptoms have not disappeared in one hour, repeat the whisky in a pint of water.