Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.Allen, Richard Lamb
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Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.
Allen, Richard Lamb
Domestic animals
An English lad lately cured one which had been given up, by boring with
a gimlet into the soft place on the head, when the water rushed out, and
the sheep immediately followed the others to the pasture. A
correspondent of the Albany Cultivator asserts, that ½ a pint of melted
lard poured down the throat, will cure blind staggers in ten minutes.
Abortion
Occurs sometimes, and is usually caused by excessive fright or exertion,
and sometimes by severe exposure and poor feed. It is seldom fatal,
except to the lamb.
The Uterus
Is occasionally protruded after lambing. It should be immediately
returned, first washing it in warm milk and water, if any dirt adheres
to it. For this, the hand only should be used. After rubbing it with
lard or oil, hold up the hind legs, and gently replace the protruded
parts, then keep the ewe quiet till fully recovered.
For Garget, or Caked Bag.
Keep the bag thoroughly drained of milk, for which purpose the lamb is
the most efficient. If it is lost, another may be temporarily
substituted. Purge freely with Epsom salts, and wash the udder
repeatedly with very warm water. If matter forms, it should be opened
with the lancet.
Bleeding.
"Nothing tends so much to the recovery of an animal from a disease in
which bleeding is required, as the rapid flow of the blood from a large
orifice. Little _impression_ can be made on an acute disease by the slow
removal of even a large quantity of blood, as the organs have time to
accommodate themselves to the loss, which might, for any good it will
do, as well be dispensed with. Either bleed rapidly, or not at all. The
nearer the commencement of an ailment, in which you employ bleeding,
the operation is resorted to, the greater the chance of its doing good.
Bleeding by nicking the under surface of the tail, does very well, where
no great deal of blood is required, but it is not to be thought of if
the veins of the face or neck can possibly be opened. These are to be
taken in preference to a vein on the leg, as they are much more readily
got at. The facial vein commences by small branches on the side of the
face, and runs downwards and backwards to the base of the jaw, where it
may be felt within two inches of the angle, or opposite the middle
grinding tooth. It is here that the orifice must be made: the thumb of
the left hand being held against the vein, so as to prevent the flow of
blood towards the heart, will make it _rise_.
Some prefer opening the jugular vein, which commences behind the eye and
runs down the side of the neck. This vessel is, however, more difficult
to open than the former, being better covered with wool, and not so
easily exposed or made to swell. _Stringing_ is the mode commonly
resorted to for this end; that is to say, a cord is drawn tightly round
the neck close to the shoulder, so as to stop the circulation through
the vein, and render it perceptible to the finger.
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