VETERINARY QUERIES.
by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon, Queries must be received by SATTJHDAX night to ensure reply in the succeeding issue.] Montana, 23. T., writes to say that his heifer -has slipped her calf after carrying same for four months. "She is a valuable animal. Shall I milk her or keep her?" etcv -"Agricola" replies:—"l would keep her, but do not attempt to milk her, as she cannot have -made enough milk to -harm. Inclined to think it is accidental abortion, although difficult to account for; possibly, perhaps, got a scare from aeroplane. For safety would suggest washing her out with solution of Condy's fluid. In happenings like this bo early there is not muoh fear of the after-birth not coming away.; but you will have noted this, no doubt. Failing all clear, three or four washings out would be requisite. Give her a • few months' rest ere mating her again. „
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Otago Witness, Issue 3443, 9 March 1920, Page 39
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