Inflammation of the womb and passages after calving are always liable to these complications, and consequently to a fatal issue.
In laying down the foregoing rules for giving assistance in critical cases of calving it is not intimated that all cases and stages can be successfully dealt with.
With a well-formed cow and calf and a natural presentation as above, calving is usually prompt and easy.
In case calving has occurred unexpectedly in the heavy milker, no time should be lost in giving the purgative thereafter.
It usually results from injuries sustained in calving or from irritation by putrid matters in connection with retained afterbirth, or from the use of some object in the vagina (pessary) to prevent eversion of the womb.
This failing, a truss may be applied as for eversion of the womb, and worn until the period of calving approaches.
At the time of calving it may be felt through the open mouth of the womb and recognized by the educated touch (it must be carefully distinguished from the mushroom-formed cotyledons (Pl.
The rent in the vagina can be stitched up, but as there would be risk in any subsequent calving it is best to prepare the cow for the butcher.
The calves should be carefully kept apart from all calving cows and their discharges.
The removal of the tumor will allow calving to proceed; after this the sore may be treated by a daily injection of one-half dram sulphate of zinc, 1 dram carbolic acid, and 1 quart milk-warm water.
It is in the large herd that the disease is mainly to be dreaded, however, and in this it is impossible to furnish new and pure stables for each successive group of two or three calving cows.
Hence the calf passes most easily with its back upward, and when turned with its back to one side calving is always tardy and may be difficult or impossible.
It is well known that a cow that is milked up to the time of calvingproves very deficient as a milker for the season, even although she had formerly been a good one.
There is, no doubt, some force in the argument that by breeding earlier keep is saved; but the answer to this is that growth is diminished, while calving is attended with danger.
It is a very common occurrence that two or three months before calving the vagina protrudes when the cow is lying: when this occurs she should be kept well up behind, else it may bring on premature calving.
Frosted turnips make cows with calf abort, and rather than give calving cows such turnips I would order them straw and water.
I would, however, store only a proportion of the Aberdeen yellow, as they lose the relish, and cattle prefer them from the field; but I require a proportion of them for calving cows in frost.
This has been proved a fallacy respecting this herd at least, for calving has been attended with no greater percentage of losses than would be experienced in ranching with the ordinary cattle.
On the summer ranges it was the habit of the cows to leave the bulls at calving time, and thus it often happened that small herds were often seen composed of bulls only.
The value of this splendid prescription during thecalving season has been tested time and time again.
By trouble peculiar tocalving or running into rich pasture during hot weather; by lack of exercise and from costiveness.
We counted twelve glaciers and heard every few minutes the reverberating roar caused by masses of ice calving from the parent streams.
This glacier, which we had noticed during the stay at Peggotty Camp, seemed to be calving almost continuously.
Yes; if he has a chela to prepare tea for him, and to fold a blanket for his head, and to chase out calving cows.
We do not use that often--except when calving cows stray in summer.
Bergs were calving off as we watched: and capsizing: and hitting other bergs, splitting into two and falling apart.
I might occasionally substitute boiled barley in place of oats; and when the time for calving was very near at hand, say within a day or so, I should become more sparing with my hay, and more copious with my allowance of bran.
If the animal is enfeebled by poor feed, old age, or any other cause, then there is very little resistance offered against the encroachments of disease: hence young beasts and cows after calving are often the victims.
Stop milking her four months before the next calf, and it will be difficult to make her hold out to within four or six weeks of the time of calving afterward.
The consequences of premature calving are frequently of a very serious nature; and even when the case is more favorable, the results are, nevertheless, very annoying.
Flaxseed Tea is very beneficial if given a day or so prior to calving and is prepared by pouring a quart of boiling hot water on one-half pint of Flaxseed, permitting it to cool of its own accord.
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