VETERINARY QUERIES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3519, 23 August 1921, Page 35

VETERINARY QUERIES.

fAnswered by a duly qualified Veterinary Surgeon. Queries must be received by SATURDAY night to ensure reply- in the succeeding issue.] Tayfcrth desires treatment for heifer running with bull and yet failing to get in calf. You are advised to wash out passage with an alkaline solution, say, a couple of days after CEstrum has passed off. Irrigate with bicarbonate of soda solution, 2oz to gallon of water. Boil and use when cool to blood heat. If no success subsequent to this treatment the animal is probably sterile. New Chum, Kokonga., writes as follows: —I dipped my sheep last March. The water I used for the purpose is extremely hard, and, having heard that washing soda helped to soften it, I used about 21b of it to each 100 gallons of wash, and the result was a complete failure. A few clays afterwards I looked over some of the lambs and I found one dead tick and about 10 live ones. I mustered them in yesterday for crutch in g, and the tips of the wool are brown with them. I never had a mess like this before, and I have dipped at the same place for yearn I used a well-known and old-established Irrand of powder dip and followed the instructions on the packets. (1) In your opinion did the washing soda kill the effects of the dip. p2> Would you advise me to dip them, say, next month? (3) What sort of dip should I use? “Agricola” replies.—(l) You do not say what slip was used—poisonous or non-poisonous, but I do not think soda would affect a powder dip. (2) 1 would dip all dry sheep as soon as possible, once the weather is suitable, using a nor. poisonous clipping mixture, and the ewes and lambs soon after the ewes are shorn. (3) I'm a non-poisonous dip in both cases, say, our- 1 ko Xe-s’ din, and adhere strictly