Title: The veterinary science (microform) : the anatomy, diseases and treatment of domestic animals also containing a full description of medicines and receipts
Identifier: cihm_09746 (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hodgins, J. E. (Joseph Edmund), b. 1872; Haskett, T. H. (Thomas Henry), b. 1873
Subjects: Cattle; Horses; Veterinary medicine; Bovins; Chevaux; Médecine vétérinaire
Publisher: Toronto : Heal & Fleming
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DISEASES AND TREATMENT OF CATTLE. 261 of string's over the back; this is to bring the festering to a head. Change the poultice every time you bathe the bag. As soon as you find a soft spot in the bag, lance it to let the matter out; make a goo.d sized hole in it, large enough to run your finger up into it to clean it out. After this, treat by bathing with luke warm water and soap and applying the white lotion twice a day ; keep the cuts open by putting butter on your finger and running it up into the hole once a day until it commences to heal. • RIG OR ORIGINAL BULLS. This is when one or both the testicles never come down into the scrotom, or bag. These kind of bulls cannot be castrated like liorses, and after they get a little .»j;(e on them they become a per- fect nuisance. > Advice.—When you go to crt«»lrate a calf and find only one or neither testicles are down, fatten and get rid of it, for it very rarely comes down afterwards. It will save you a lot of trouble if you get rid of it while young. HOW TO RING A BULL. Secure the animal by throwing him, or having him in a solid, narrow stall ; take a piece of sharp-pointed, clean, hard wood, or a sharp piece of bright steel large enough to make a hole for the ring ; put the hole through in the soft part of the nose, just in front of the hard cartilage that separates the nostrils, which is easily felt. After the hole is through, open and oil the ring, slip it through, close it and put in the screw. After the ring is in turn it every day until the wound is healed. These rings can be got at any hardware store. SWELLING OF THE POINT OF SHEATH IN STEERS. Causes.—It is mostly seen where they are grazing on a pasture field where there is a lot of limestone, or when there is much lime in the water they drink, and on account of the -steer not putting out his penis while making water, just letting it dribble out of the sheath, the lime in his water collects and forms a small limestone which soon gets large and irritates the sheath, causing it to swell. Treatment.—if he is a quiet steer, let him stand, and have someone to hold him by the horn and nose, while you, with your fingers oiled, pass one of them up into the sheath, and by working the stone around you can soon remove it, then oil the sheath inside and outside with lard and it will be all right. In case you cannot do this with the steer standing up, throw him down and secure him as for castration and remove it in the same way. ,
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