VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3111, 29 October 1913, Page 47

VETERINARY QUERIES.

f Answered by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon. Queries must bo received by SATURDAY night to ensure reply In the succeeding issue.]

H.—Filly with difficulty in breathing: If your filly is of any value you should consult a qualified veterinary surgeon, as it is impossible to locate her trouble without a careful examination. As the summer is approaching you might turn her out in a well-sheltered paddock with plenty of grass, and probably she would come in in the autumn all right, without any doctoring. Beginner. —Horse subject to swelling in the legs; As far as I can learn from your communication the cause of your horse’s legs swelling may be due to an unhealthy condition of the blood. You might try a dose of physic, and follow it up with tonic medicine, with occasional diuretics. It would bo much the safer plan, if you value your horse, to consult a duly qualified veterinary surgeon. Such cases as you describe cannot be properly dealt with without a personal examination. Cowboy. —Cow losing milk from one of her teats: The teats of a good milk cow should be at equal distances asunder, and of moderate size and equal thickness. If too large above they favour a too easy flow of milk; if too small there, they offer an obstacle to its flow; and if too broad on tlie point, the orifice is generally too large, and the cow is apt to drop some of her milk if left unmilked too long. To remedy the last defect a piece of linen or soft leather should lie put round the teat, and outside it an Indian rubber band. Farmer. —As you say, the swelling has besn in the gelding’s sheath for so long that it is scarcely worth while bothering about it, especially as it does not interfere with the usefulness of the animal. Constant Reader. —Read the particulars given in the Farm and Station pages about mammitis.