VETERINARY QUERIES.
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X V Z — Wind-sucking is one of the most detrimental vices a horse can acquire, as it may cau c c indigestion, thus lowering the vital powers, may pioduce colic, or result in loss of condition. The operation of bleeding, .o which you refer, had not the shortest tendency to generate this baneful habit. Probablj you could control him by us-ing a Jeathea strap (made by the saddler for the purpose) tight around nis neck and .voan continually. 11. L. asks for advice about a. four-year-olcl hack which keeps very thin although he gets plentj .of feed, and doe 3 not have a great deal of work to do. The ink'e? aie puffy. It is generally acknowledged that a four-year-old colt has less endurance at work than a. three-year-old. This is put down by veterinary su.rgec-ns to the fact that fit four yea.rs old they shed their molar teeth, and therefore are unable to masticate the food properly. Reasonable treatment would be to turn out the horse in a good sheltered paddock for three or fcur months, when the puffines° will probably have disappeared from the pastern joints. ' Constant Reader. — As the cow first affected was evidently diseased, a.nd you were recommended to get rid of her now that her comparion has exhibited similar symptoms, it would only be right, proper, and safe to follow suit with her. No one could ever relish any a.rtiole of diet from these undesirables, and besides very serious consequences may result from their retention.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 51
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265VETERINARY QUERIES. Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 51
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