HOW NOT TO DRENCH LAMBS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 27 August 1913, Page 6

HOW NOT TO DRENCH LAMBS

A WARNING TO SHIPOWNERS. A Government veterinary officer,' who recently visited a farm for tlie purpose of assisting the owner,in determining the cause of some mortality which had occurred among lambs, makes the following remarks in his report upon the matter:— "In conversation with Mr - I learned that he had been drenching the lambs with turpentine and lin-seed-oil, 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 realise 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 I wa yof forcing the liquid into the wind-pipe and killing the patient, and I have no doubt but that the.se lambs were in this way killed by the owner. ■ With sheep and lambs, as with other animals, liquid medicine should be i "lYon'showly and carefully, a small quantity .only, being quietly poured into the mouth, at,, n time,.,and care being tako-n to pour in no more until that is properly swallowed. The head should be" heici. 'by the upper . jaw only, ,slightly iabove the horisonlal line (care being taken not to compress the nostril.O, and tho tongue .-, left quite free. • y