Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry.

Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry.

Thus for less than a cent a day, you can make sure of the cow enjoying health and being productive.

Aphtha, Sores on the Lips and Tongue

Symptoms.—­Painful blisters which become sores on the lips and tongue.  Occurs often in sucking calves.

Treatment.—­Wash the mouth twice a day with one ounce of borax and one fluid ounce of myrrh mixed in one quart of water or a mild solution of Pratts Dip and Disinfectant.  Give Pratts Cow Remedy daily.  If the mouth is very sore give the remedies in gruel form.  Feed animal on regular gruel feed.  If it occurs in calves, give Pratts Cow Remedy with milk and use borax as mentioned above.

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---------- Pittsfield, Ill.

     Am using Pratts Bag Ointment on young heifer with a very sore bag
     and she is doing fine.  I would not do without it.

F.E.  STORCK._
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Bloat

Symptoms.—­While eating, or shortly afterward, a swelling appears on the left side, and as the swelling increases the animal appears to be in great distress, pants, strikes belly with its hind feet, the belching of gas is noticed and the animal does not chew its cud.  Later the breathing becomes difficult, the animal moans, its back is arched, eyes protrude, the tongue hangs out and saliva runs from the mouth.

Cause.—­Eating damp grass, succulent grass of early spring and second crop clover in autumn when wet with dew or rain.  Also caused by a change of food or over filling the paunch of animal with indigestible food.

Treatment.—­At this stage mix one ounce aromatic spirits of ammonia in one pint of water and give the mixture as a drench.  Repeat in twenty minutes if necessary.  In extreme cases a mechanical treatment can be successfully employed by the use of Pratts Cattle Trocar.

Caked Udder, or Garget

Apply Pratts Bag Ointment according to directions.  It is very penetrating, and has great softening and cooling properties.  Use also for chafing and inflammation.

Cold

Symptoms.—­Heated forehead, sneezing, coughing, may have diarrhoea or be constipated, fever and loss of appetite.  Urine deficient.

Treatment.—­Give large doses of Pratts Cow Remedy in gruel form and gradually reduce quantity.  Keep animal warm, bandage legs and rub throat and lungs with Pratts Liniment.

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---------- McDonoghville, La.

     Pratts Animal Regulator can’t be beat for sick calves—­this is from
     actual experience.

E.M.  HUBERT._
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Colic

Animal will be uneasy, gets up and lies down, and suffers much pain.

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