Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-29

the production OF cleaner and more
efficient herds
/ l. The construction or arrangement
of Independent maternity and calf
nursery stables embodying all modern
requirements for ventilation, light.
| heat, convenience for disinfection and
ample facilities for the exclusion of
/ flies. The stables should provide suf-
! fcient individual stalls for all caly-
ing cows and individual stalls for
calves until at least three months old.
| >. A COW which is about to calve
should be well cleaned and her pos
! terror parts disinfected, after which
she should be placed in a clean stall
some days prior to expected parturi-
ton. Pending parturition the stall
should be kept scrupulously clean and
well disinfected. The tail, vulva, but
tocks and udder should be disinfected
twice daily. In order to avoid the
danger of infection to the calf while
passing through the vagina of the
COW during birth either by the infec-
| tion of white scours. the granular
venereal disease, or other malady, the
vagina should be irrigated daily with
& mild disinfectant such as 5 per
cent Lugors solution. Such attention
to the vagina also tends TO carry away
any infections within the vagina
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of the cervical canal of the uterus at
the time of calving may otherwise
drop the uterine cavity and there
establish disease.
8. When the calf is born it should
/ be received upon a clean antiseptic
! sheet and al once carried to a clean
| calf stall and rubbed dry. If it is de-
| sired to allow the calf to remain tenn
porarily with the COW. great care
/ should be taken to see that the bed
ding is kept clean.
Care of the Calf.
After the calf has been dried II not
/ earlier. the stump of the navel cord
should be disinfected. 1t should not
| be ligated Prepare a warm l to
h LOCO solution of corrosive suDnmate,
/ fill a goblet or cup with it, and. hav-
ing the calf held in a standing posi-
ton, press the vessel against the floor
| of the belly so that the stump of the
navel cord is submerged in the dis
| injecting fluid. Retain ii in this posi-
| ton for at least ten minutes I'M
mediately afterwards dust the stump
of the cord over literally with a dis
/ injecting desiccating powder, as alum
and camphor, and repeat every thirty
minutes until the stump is dry.
| The body openings (mouth, nostrils,
/ vulva of heifer, and sheath of bull
| calf should be disinfected with a 0.5
! per cent. Lugors solution.
4. Prior to drawing milk from the
dam or other COW for feeding the
calf. or permitting the calf to suck,
the udder and adjacent parts of the
COW should be thoroughly disinfected.
/ The milk should be drawn in a sterile
vessel under the strictest cleanliness
I + y, &c, known
| to be free from tuberculosis. it should
be sterilized before feeding. Individual
feeding vessels should be used and
regularly sterilized.
When calves have reached three
months of age il may usually be
fairly determined if they are free
from disease. in which case they may
be handled in groups. These, how
ever, should be kept as small as econ
omically practicable until the heifers
have calved and are ready for the
dairy. Even then the larger the num-
I Der of animals in one stable the
| greater the risk of infection and the
/ more destructive will it be II it gains
entrance.
). When breeding time for the heifer
grown under the foregoing conditions
is approaching we would advise that
her vagina be douched once daily for
I at least three weeks before breeding,
at first with 0.5 per cent. Lugops solu-
ton and thereafter each second day
with a 0.25 per cent. solution. The
douching should extend over at least
one estrual period, or twenty-one days
prior to breeding, and followed for an
equal time after breeding, or until it
is determined she is pregnant The
bull should preferably have been
grown in the same manner as the
i heifers he is TO serve and his genitals
dQuched in a similar way.