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
_Remedies._--Carefully wash the foot in warm soap-suds, and while still
damp, apply between the claws on the affected part from one to three
grains of corrosive sublimate. If it does not fully adhere, it must be
mixed with hog's lard, but it should be so applied as to be out of the
reach of the animal's tongue, as it is a powerful poison, and the
extreme irritability of the feet will induce him to lick them.
The claw is efficiently cleansed, by drawing a cord briskly through it,
when either of the above applications, or blue vitriol put on two or
three times a day, or spirits of turpentine, will effect a cure.
It is sometimes cured by putting the animals in the stanchions, and
applying a sharp chisel three-fourths of an inch from the toe, and
striking it with a mallet till it is cut off. If it does not bleed
freely, cut off shavings till it does. If the animal is refractory, let
a person hold up the opposite foot. Keep them in the stable two or three
days, and out of the mud for a week.
Loss of Cud
Is loss of appetite, prostration, and general ill-health.
_Remedies._--Give a warm bran mash, with good hay, and warm water with
salt.
An aloe tincture, made with brandy and ginger, is good.
Afterwards give good, dry, nourishing food; and bitter infusions,
chamomile flowers, hoarhound, oak bark, &c., in beer.
Scours, or Diarrh[oe]a.
A common remedy, is to boil the bark of white oak, white pine, and
beech, and give a strong infusion in bran. If they refuse to eat it,
pour it down. The oak is astringent, and the pine and beech soothing and
healing.
Warbles
Are grubs, the egg of which is deposited in the back of cattle by the
gad-fly, (_[OE]strus bovis._) They are discernible by a protuberance or
swelling on the back. They may be pressed out by the thumb and finger;
or burnt out by plunging a hot wire in them; or a few applications of
strong brine will remove them.
Wounds
In cattle are readily healed, when the animal's blood is in good order,
by applying a salve made of 1 oz. green copperas; 2 oz. white vitriol; 2
oz. salt; 2 oz. linseed oil; 8 oz. molasses. Boil over a slow fire 15
minutes in a pint of urine, and when almost cold, add 1 oz. oil of
vitriol, and 4 oz. spirits turpentine. Apply it with a feather to the
wound, and cure soon follows.
Milk, or Puerperal Fever,
Is a common disease with cows in high condition, at the time of calving.
It may, in almost every case, be avoided, by keeping them in moderate
feed and flesh.
_Remedies._--Bleed freely, say 6 to 10 quarts, according to the
circulation of the blood; then give 1 to 1½ lbs. of Epsom salts,
according to the size of the beast, to be repeated in half lb. doses
every six hours, till she purges freely.
Injections should always be given when purgatives are tardy in their
operation.
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