VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3016, 3 January 1912, Page 51

VETERINARY QUERIES.

[Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon. Queries must be received by SATURDAY night to ensure reply in th« succeeding issue.)

Roseneath writes; “I have a two-year-old cold running in a yard which has just shown a. curb on the hinder part of the hind leg two or three inches below the hock joint. It has been on two or three weeks, but was only noticed a day -ago. Should I blister it, or what is the correct treatment? The colt is neither lame nor stiff." Answer: The proper treatment for your colt is to turn him out into a lovql paddock whore there is plenty of good * e&( * and water, with convenient shelter, without applying any medicinal treatment whatever.

Southland Farmer writes giving particulars of the death of a valuable Clydesdale n.are after foaling under particular circumstances set out and also giving particulars of a post ‘•mortem examination. Answer; Any assistance required in complicated cases such as the one described should be ' conducted by one who knows thoroughly the anatomy of the different viscera which may bo presented and the relations they bear to one another. Without that knowledge and experience such capes generally have a fatal termination. Any advice given in such a matter might be very misleading, as the operator must act according to circumstances as he finds them. Subscriber writes: “I have a cow that keeps walking round and round all the time. Then she takes a fit and falls down She has been like this for a. long time. What can be done with her?”——Answer: Probably the cow is suffering from hydatids in the brain. You should have her examined by a qualified veterinary surgeon, as if she is troubled with hydatid's a surgical operation would be necessary for their removal.