92 Contagious Abortion 



night leave a portion. The milk production decreases and they apparent- 

 ly lose their energy. The passages of the bowels often take the form of 

 balls rather than cakes. If constipation is due to fever about the only 

 guide is the conditiori of the bowel passages. 



TREATMENT 



Constipation due to housing can be overcome by inducing the cattle 

 to take exeircise every day and in addition replace some of the dry feed 

 with a laxative feed as green wheat, ensilage, oil meal, bran or clover 

 hay. Sometimes taking the chill off of water by the use of a tank heater 

 not only induces cattle to drink a sufficient amount of water for digestive 

 purposes but will pay for itself in inclreased milk production made. 



If constipation is due to fever of disease often the difficulty can be 

 overcome by the addition of a laxative feed but it may be necessary to give 

 2 to 3 pints of raw linseed oil which is a laxative and has not the grip- 

 ing or weaking powers of a more drastic physic. 



NON BREEDING COWS 



' . {Sterile Cows) 



Non -Breeding cows are more often found among excessively fat or 

 poor cows or those that have not had all the afterbirth removed after 

 calving. Occasionally a cow is naturally deficient in the organs of gener- 

 ation and will not breed. Such a cow usually has a masculine head 

 that could not be told from a steer's head if the head were all you were 

 privi eged to see. When the cows are too fleshy the excessive fat around 

 the organs of generation often causes the trouble. Wlien the afterbirth 

 is allowed to rot away instead of being properly removed, pus forms 

 and may effect the tubes between the womb and ovaries or the womb 

 proper. Sometimes these pockets can be removed and antiseptic douches 

 applied and the cow will conceive. The douche should be given several 

 days before breeding. Cows effected with contagious abortion often will 

 not conceive. 



CONTAGIOUS ABORTION 



No recent disease of cattle has caused the financial loss and dis- 

 couragement to the cattle owners that contagious abortion has caused. 



