VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2622, 15 June 1904, Page 47

VETERINARY QUERIES.

[Answered \y a dulj qualified Veterinary Surcton Queries most be receWcd bj MONDAY nigkt to ensure r»pl; in the succeeding issue ]

Subscribed, Kaitangata.— When foals art weaned it is much better to give the evc.dng feed cooked ; it trains them to eat mashes, lessens the chances of attacks by parasitic germs, and is easier digested. It would also repay the extra trouble to halter and give them a few lessons to lead at that age, as they never forget it, end, in the case of sickness or accident, 3'ou can apply remedial treatment without any trouble. Subscriber, Maniototo. — It would be necessary to keep your calves in a comfortable house at night during the -winter months, and give, fasting, a tablespoonful of salt (chloride of sodium) dissolved in a little milk, with a bottiej every morning. Subschibee, Waipahi. — See reply given above. Subscribes, Arrowtown.— ln treating sickness in horses there is no hard-and-fast rule in regard to remedies. The experienced expert has to judge that according as he finds ths patient. Sometimes a mild laxative, as * bottle of linseed oil, is preferable to a drastic cathartic, especially in the hands of an amateur. The other physics mentioned are unreliable in treating the horse. Settler. — It might suit your colt better to use a little Jeye's fluid, diluted with water, to bathe the parts affected once a clay instead of the kerosene, a"d mix a little s<i't m his food daily.