Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-24
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I'D. r. COLLINS, Eaito,,.
COWS COMING IN-CARE. DURING
AND AFTER CESSATION.
sas8sf BY HARRY. LEWIS.

Each year for the.last thirteen years,
my uniform practice has been to give
the COW a pail Of cold water as soon as
she drops her calf, and repeat the dose
about once each hour until she has all the
drink she desires. 81 = X5ga3a4f 1850
The water is always taken from the
fountain or watering place where she
gets her daily drink lam aware that
a large portion of intelligent 1airymen
and COW owners will be Mortified at this
practice, and do not recommend this
practice Of giving cold water to cows
kept in cold, uncomfortable stables, or
in the open yard, for do not know
what effects it would produce But for
COWS that are we'll cared for no danger
need be unprecedented. The COW, during
her efforts to expel the calf, becomes
highly excited, overheated, and often
somewhat feverish and thirsty. Cold
water is, therefore,V the very provision
of nature for her wants under these cir
cumstances. 1t restores the body to the
proper temperature allays the excite
ment and fever, quenches her thirst, les 4
sens the chances of her taking cold, and
hastens the expulsion of the placenta or
after BIRTH When cow does we'll, the
placenta will become detached from the
womb and come away, or be expelled in
from one to six hours after calving but
if it is retained ten or twelve hours, it
will not come away until after the decay
Of its attachments to the womb, causing
putrefaction of the most offensive kind
to. the attendants, and very injurious to
| the-cow. / would, therefore, advise its
removal whenever the COW does not ex-
4 pei it, within twelve hours after calv1ng,
and give for its accomplishment the fol
lowing directions Hal
Take in one hand that part of the pla-
centa in sight, being sure to get the UNI
bilical cord, or ligature, by which the
calf was attached to the placenta at
birth, and introduce the hand between
it and the womb. The places attached
Numbering about thirty will easily be
found, and "a separation effected by TAX
ing the placenta, near the place of at
tachment, between the thumb and fore
finger and giving it a gentle pull, at
right angles from the womb and directly
toward the centre just sufficient to de-
tach it, and SO with the next, until it is
sufficiently detached to drop away, which
will sometimes occur when three or four
places are detached, and at other times
a separation between nearly all the places
of detachment becomes necessary.
The placenta may only be separated
from the womb with entire safety by
holding the umbilical cord firmly in one
hand, and with the ends or side of the
fingers press the placenta at the places
of attachment gently toward tho centre
of the womb. The cow should be allow
ed to eat the palcenta if she desires to
Go so, fer this is a special provision Of
nature for the cow at this particular
time. Nature is better COW doctor in
this particular than all the quacks in
!, the world, with their granny notions
thrown in. Nochange of food should
be allowed the COW for six or eight days
, after coming in, and whenever change
, is made it should be gradual.
| If the COW has rayenous appetite
, after calving she should not be allowed
all the food she will eat for several day
. The loss from feeding too little is NOR
e than balanced by the, dangers arisin!
J, from feeding too much.
Another i'll to which the COW is liabl
e after coming in is, that Of, casting he
4 withers, which is nothing more or les
E than the expulsion of THE womb. TIL
n womb is sometimes expelled soon afte
calvlng. and sometimes as late as four Q
: five days after. Its generally suppose
), to result from injuries received at par
d turition, causing the continuance, or re
e currance of labor-pains, but other cause
e may also produce it. i-e a4
It AS the womb is expelled, it is turne
inside out, and when returned it shoul
be turned outside in. If the cow
greatly excited (as she often will be,
and her pains frequent, her resistance I
its return will be so great as to render tt
operation not only extremely Difficult
10 but even dangerous The first thing |
t. be done is to protect the womb from il
70 jury. This can be done if the COW is l,
re- ing down. by placing a soft clean clot
% under it. Give the COW ten grains
: powdered opium in half pint of war
n water. The opium will quiet the excit
1t ment, still the nervous action, relax I'll
N muscles, and, allay the pains &
O. If the quantity of opium given is insl
: ficient to accomplish this, repeat the dos
r in forty minutes. If laudanum shoul
p be used instead of opium, for one graf
e. if opium use twenty-five drops of laud
mum, or four tea-spoonfuls, for a dos
While waiting for the operation of IL
le opium, cleanse the womb with strong a
le um water from all dirt or foreign ma
OF ter Cold water is better than warm Fl