How not to drench Lambs.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 17 September 1913, Page 4

How not to drench Lambs.

A WARNING TO SEEEPOWNERS.

By C. ,T. Reakes, D.V.Sc, M. R, C. V. S in tho Journal of Agriculture. A Government veterinary officer, who recently visited a farm" for the purpose of assisting the owner in determining the cause of some mortality which had occtiried among lambs, makes the following remarks in his report npon the matter : —

v In conversation with Mr. I learned that ho had been drenching the lambs with turpentine and lioseedoil, and that nearly all—possibly all— of the deaths had occurred very shortly after drenching,- also that he had used a pewter syringe to drench with, and believed in doing it quickly, and with force, "

In these days it seems difficult to realize how any man could imagine that to force liquid medicine down the throat through the medium of a syringe is a right and proper way of administering it. It is an excellent ■way of forcing the liquid into tho windpipe and killing the patient, and I have no doubt but that thesn lambs WGI'Q in this way killed by the owner. With sheep and lambs, aa with other animals, liquid medicine should be given slowly and carefully, a small quantity only being quietly poured into the inoutii at a time, and care being taken to pour in no mGre until that is properly swallowod. The head should be held, by the upper jaw only, slightly above the horizontal line (care being taken not to compress tile nostrils), and the tongue left quite froe.