Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . nd helping to extract the foal; to the loop atthe end a rope is attached. 490 CYCLOPEDIA OF LlVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. IX. When the Foal Is Born Dead, or the After-birth Retained. In those cases already referred to, where death and decomposition of thefoetus has occurred, or where the after-birth lias been retaine
Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . nd helping to extract the foal; to the loop atthe end a rope is attached. 490 CYCLOPEDIA OF LlVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. IX. When the Foal Is Born Dead, or the After-birth Retained. In those cases already referred to, where death and decomposition of thefoetus has occurred, or where the after-birth lias been retained and becomesputrid, efiicient antiseptic measures are necessary. After-treatment, suchas is so prominent in the physicians practice, following difficult partu-rition, is never thought of in the veterinarians. However, the copious useof lukewarm vaginal injections of a mild nature, are very requisite in theclass of eases we are considering. An ordinary syringe will one to two quarts of the fluid should be injected into the vagina,whence it will gravitate to the lowest parts, and render harmless the germsaccompanying the decomposition. This may be repeated twice a day, forthree or four days, by which time its healthy action will have become UMBILIC COED OF FOAI. 1. Cutaneous portion of cord. 2. Amniotic portion of cord. X. The UmbilicU Cord of umbilic cord must be divided and the last direct relation betweenthe mother and young severed. This division results in a wound whichinvolves the arteries, veins and urachus, each of Avliich communicates withinternal parts of the system of the young animal. Different writers assumedifferent attitudes toward the care of the navel of the new-born. Natu-rally, the umbilic cord becomes ruptured in a variety of ways. In thefoal the cord is so long (3 feet) that it is usually not ruptured when thefffitus is expelled, if the mare is recumbent, but gives Avay only when sherises to her feet, and even then in some
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