VETERINARY QUERIES.
[Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon. Queries must be received by SATURD AY - night to ensure reply in the succeeding issue.] W. W. writes:—"l have a horse which cannot bend the" head down to eat grass. The horse can eat chaff, but to get to grass it has to put its fore legs back to its hind legs to get fhfi head down. There is no swelling or" anything to indicate what is wrong. The animal is only four years old, arid is sound in every other way. Can you give a remedy?"—Answer: Probably your colt is suffering from "torticollis," a contraction or injriry of some of the cervical muscles, resulting in an abnSrmal position of the head. Treatment: You might administer purgative medicine, and place a sheepskin over the loins under an ordinary horse-cover. Scribe. —Lameness in horse's fore leg: It would be impossible to tell with any degree of accuracy without an examination. Get someone with practical experience to give the horse a thorough overhaul. He may perhaps be able 'to point out the cause of the animal's sudden lameness.'
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Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 51
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185VETERINARY QUERIES. Otago Witness, Issue 2978, 12 April 1911, Page 51
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