VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 47

VETERINARY QUERIES.

f Answered by a duly qualified VeterinarySurgeon. Queries must be received by SATURDAY night to ensure reply in the succeeding issue.]

Settles. —The particulars you give regarding your cow would indicate that' an attack of actinomycosis (lumpy jaw). If *O. the Inspector of Stock might condemn her. and ho could inform you what compensation the Stock Department would allow, if any. Farmer. —It is scarcely worth while to Irother about the, enlargement between the hock and fetlock joint of your foal, resulting from injuries caused by becoming entangled in a wire, as it might disappear as the animal grows older. However, you might apply a mild blister, and repeat if necessary iu three weeks.

A. O. H.—There mf,” b© differences of opinion among practitioners as to the infectiousness of strangles, but the particulars given in your query go far to identify it as such, and it is probable that the mare you describe is labouring •under the same disease, but in a different locality—viz., in the region of the heart. You might give a little cooked linseed and about a teaspoonful of salt in each feed, and bandage her legs, removing the bandages once a day. Constant Reader asks for the best cure for thrush in the foot of a horse; just a slight touch. The question came to hand too late to be submitted to our veterinary expert. The following is from “Veterinary Notes.” by Captain Hayes;—“lf there be no lameness, keep the feet dry, and avoid ‘stoppings.’ Carefully remove with a blacksmith’s drawing knife or searcher any diseased or loose portions of horn in order to prevent wet or dirt accumulating about them. Into all the parts from which either discharge or bad smells issue introduce burnt alum, small lumps of which should be placed in the cleft of the frog and rammed down with the back of a hoof picker; also any cracks in the frog. Another application, instead of alum, is made of 2Joz oil of turpentine, 2Joz sweet oil, hoz iodoform, and camphor, as much as will dissolve. If the horse has to be kept at work, fill up the cleft of the frog and cracks with cotton wool or tow, over which smear Stockholm tar, so as to keep out wet and dirt. The application should be renewed every' day or every' second day'. Above all things, secure pressure on the frog, and keep the feet dry. If the animal is lame from thrush, it is well to syringe out the parts for a few minutes with warm water two or three times a day before using the application, which, in that case, should not be of a tarry nature.