Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-04-03
LAMBS SECURING AND DYING.


LAMBS SECURING AND DYING.
Ihave a valuable stock of Leicester
sheep, many of which are affected with
a strange sort Of whirring sound in
their notrils. It is most marked when
the animals are grazing, or the stom-
ach distended with food. All ages
have it, the lambs being the worst. As
yet they are thriving quite well, but a
few are securing a good deal. 1 may
state that last year 1 lost thirty most
ly tup lambs) after they were taken
from their mothers. The SYMPTOMS be-
ing securing, swelling of the heads and
ears, and on examination after death,
the liver seemed to be diseased. Would
you kindly inform me if there can be
any similarity in the two cases, and if
anything can be done for them, as /
have lost a good many lambs during
the last three years?-LRquirer, IRUer-
neSShire.
Data given is scarcely sufficient to
form a very definite or satisfactory con
clusion as to the cause of your losses.
Careful examination of the n~ostrils Of
your "whirring" lambs, or of the sinu-
ses of the head of any which unfortu-
nately die, VIII enable you to ascertain
whether there are grub worms lodged
within the cavities of the head. Such
intruders-the Larvae of a fy-appear
in July and August, and like other in
sect pests, fromthewet, mid-winter and
damp summer, are perhaps unusually
prevalent. Their presence In the nos
trIls a~ndfrontal sinuses cause sneezing,
noisy respiration; the annoying irrita-
ton induces the sheep to stamp with
its feet, rub at its nostrils, and make
e~rratic, ~purposeless movements. 1t
is probable that your lambs,
like those of 50 many other
hock-masters IN various parts of the
country, may be wheeling, coughing
and securing from thread worms In
their bronchial tubes. Contrary to the
commonly received opinion, these
thread worms are seldom found IN the
stomach or bowels, and never in the
numbers in which they are commonly
observed In the bronchi. Although
commonly located in the air passages
those wriggling little pests, by reflex
action, interfere with digestion, and set
up diarrhea. Tape worm, as we have
repeatedly pointed out, is this summer
common, has killed off many lambs
and accounts forthe indiferent thriving
and growing of many more. In flock
of four hundred which we had occasion
to examine, more than half were re-
duced by and affected with tape worm
and spite of good food, upwards of fifty
had died within three weeks. We do
not think that there is any connection
between the Larvae in the head, the
thread worms in the air passages, or
tape worms in the bowels, and the dis
Case of the liver which you state has
sometimes carried off your lambs. If
your Leicester flock, as we gather, is
not large, and yet you have convent
nee to do so, endeavor to give the
lambs. every ten days or a fortnight, a
change of fresh pastures, which for up
wards of a week have been cleared Of
sheep. Supply all the lambs with three
or four ounces of linsced cake or of oats
and bran, and to all that are securing
give three. ounceso Of lime water and one
dram, that Is about a teaspoonful of oil
of ~turpentine. This draught will be
especially suitable if, as is probable,
the Observation-Disclosures with thread
or tape worms.-North British Agricul-
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