VETERINARY QUERIES.
lAnnworcd fcj i (July qc»llfleil Veterianj' Stageon. Qcerict Emit he recdyed I<j Hobday night to cntsta reply tho iuaoeedinj liroc.l
Subscriber — If you could foi waid a j-p-oimon of the abnormal growth a correct opinion of the disease attacking your fowls and whether the birds are wholef-ome as on article of diet might be arrived at. l (1 or my own part I ehould dc-
cline to partake of the smallest particle of it.
•Subscr'BEß, Waikaia. — Your mare seems to have a tendency to intestinal irritatiou. Colic is leadily excited by dry food, «u<ldeu changes of diet, and probably by irregular meals, lonrf fasts, aud copious draughts cf cold water. Such recuiricg attacks aie frequently connected with eirors of die 1 -, but6ometitv.es it may depend on faulty conformation or hereditary causes. Dust bails or other substuices may cause obstruction; parasites in krge quantities may aLo constrict the bowth fen I caiue fatal results. Where such* tendency to attains of colic ex : st the obseivant owner or attendant should be able to discover the particular fault <>r error which leads to them, as "prevention is better than cure." The animal must be fed with special care. Diy bard fo<id must be mixed or alternated with food of a relaxing nature. When f-pasm is the pioiniuent symptom a stimulant will generally be found successful, but when the vain continues a dose of laucUnum, enemate, and fomentations may also be serviceable. '
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Otago Witness, Issue 2319, 11 August 1898, Page 46
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240VETERINARY QUERIES. Otago Witness, Issue 2319, 11 August 1898, Page 46
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