The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . urrow underthe cuticle and cause intense itching with tumefaction and loss ofhair. The most effective remedy is Thymo-cresol, a preparationwhich has recently come into use as an insecticide and anti-parasiteon all kinds of live stock. AILMENTS AKi) THEIR REMEDIES. 117 Rats Tail is the rather significant name for a cutaneous affec-tion of the dock, which causes the hair of the tail to fall caused by parasites or not, the same remedy is effectivelyused for this as for mange. Lice are often communi
The family horse : its stabling, care and feedingA practical manual for horse-keepers . urrow underthe cuticle and cause intense itching with tumefaction and loss ofhair. The most effective remedy is Thymo-cresol, a preparationwhich has recently come into use as an insecticide and anti-parasiteon all kinds of live stock. AILMENTS AKi) THEIR REMEDIES. 117 Rats Tail is the rather significant name for a cutaneous affec-tion of the dock, which causes the hair of the tail to fall caused by parasites or not, the same remedy is effectivelyused for this as for mange. Lice are often communicated to horses from hen-roosts, whichare allowed near the stable. The hens and their roosts should beremoved, and the entire premises given a coat of hot whitewash oflime and carbolic acid. The Thymo-cresol may then be applied. BOTS are the larvae of a gad-fly, which deposits its eggs uponthe hair of the legs, sides and shoulders, from which they are lickedby the horses tongue, and carried into the stomach in the act ofswallowing. The larvae, which hatch from the eggs, attach them-. Fig. 71.—EGGS. Fig. 72.—FEMALE FLY. Fig. 73.—BOTS IN HOBSES STOMACH. selves to the lining membrane of the stomach, and remain thereuntil the following spring. They then become detached, passthrough the alimentary canal and fall with the droppings. Theybecome pupae and enter the ground, where they remain until thefinal transformation, when they emerge as flies. Figure 71 showsthe eggs of natural size and magnified ; figure 72 the fly of naturalsize ; figure 73 a portion of the lining membranes of the stomachwith the bots adhering. No means of expelling bots has ever been found. They havebeen known to live for days in solutions of arsenic and other activepoisons. There is no known substance which will expel them with-out killing the horse. It is generally agreed by all who have studiedthe subjects that these parasites are not injurious to the health of 118 THE FAMILY HOKSE. the horse, unless th
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