VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2955, 2 November 1910, Page 51

VETERINARY QUERIES.

[Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon. Queries must bs received by SATURDAY night to ensure reply in the succeeding issue J C'ow^if.n —You evidently made a great mistake in nutting the rope around the horns of your cow to pull her a boa: with a fcorso. ' It is a wonder she is alive. Probably 6he is suffering from a sprain of the vertebral column, or of the muscles cr the tendons connected with it. You should have put the rope around tun body, behind the laze leas &ud back

round the hindquarters. The horse would I then have brought her out the same as if she had been in a cradle. RtTDLE writes that a peculiar disease has made its appearance in a dairy herd in the locality where he resides. The cows have been wintered on cocksfoot gracs. About a week before calving they seem to lose power in their hind Tegs. They rest, on their side, strttohed at full 'length, and require to b.e assisted to partly turn over to eat, which they do ravenously. After they have calved they collapse altogether, and die. The owner opened one of them and found a large quantity of water inside, Their bowels acted all right, and there seemed to be nothing the matter with them except the loss of power behind. Answer: The state of affairs mentioned may arise from various causes, including innutritions food during the winter. Before suggesting any remedy it would be necessary to examine the herd and find out the nature of the ailment and its probable cause. An experienced qualified veterinary surgeon should be called in and his instructions followed. This is the only reasonable course to adopt. If he is able to save the remainder of the herd his fee will not be missed. FARMER, Wyndham.— Not having had an opportunity of examining the foals, dead or alive, it is impossible to say what was .the cause of their inability to suck the mother. The navel had nothing to do with it, as Nature had teemed it in its own rational wav, and there was no necessity for stitching or tying after ihe laceration nad died. If you find the expected foal is affected in the same wav you should at once call in an expert. 'Just think of the value of the two foals had they been alive now, as in all probability they would had you called in an exnerienced vet. promptly.