Sheep husbandry by Killebrew J

Author:Killebrew, J[oseph] B[uchner] 1831-1906. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sheep
Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., Tavel, Eastman & Howell
Published: 1880-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

refusing food altogether, loss of condition, and a morbid appetite for stones, gravel, ashes, sand and earth. The dung becomes soft, losing its ball-shape, and adhering to its legs and tail, making the shrub appear quite filth)'. This disease cannot be prevented, as it is liable to come from wild and domestic animals alike, but it is easily cured. Take turpentine and linseed oil, two parts of oil and one of turpentine, and mix in a strong decoction or tea, made of worm seed, and drench the sheep about twice a week. In two or three weeks it will get well, and begin to fatten. An old sheep, or after six years of age, will not have them.

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are also common in sheep. Affected with these they will lose flesh rapidly, and have diarrhsea constantly. The worms will be seen about the vent. Salt and copperas administered freely will soon relieve them, or if that does not then use the turpentine and linseed oil. There are many other forms and kinds of worms, but the treatment is the same. They must be well fed after treatment.

Sheep are infested with worms in the nose, called astrus ovis (Sheep gad-fly), and produced from the eggs of a large two-winged fly. The frontal sinuses above the nose in sheep and other animals are the places where these worms live and attain their full growth. These sinuses are always full of a soft white matter, which furnishes these worms with a proper nourishment, and are sufficiently large for their habitation, and when they have acquired their destined growth in which they are fit to undergo their changes for the fly-state, they leave their old habitation, and falling to the earth, bury themselves there, and then they are hatched into flies. The female, when she has been impregnated by the male, knows that the nose of a sheep or other animal is the only place for her to deposit her eggs in order to their coming to maturity. The fly produced from this worm has

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