CARE OF THE HEALTH OF GOATS 213" 



They can be used safely only if care and caution, 

 are exercised. , 



Treatment for Scours. — Remove the kid to a sepa- 

 rated, dry, warm pen, and blanket if the weather is cold. 

 Reduce the allowance of feed. Give boiled milk only.' 

 Assist it to rid itself of the irritating substance by a 

 small dose of warm castor oil, one teaspoonful for a 

 tiny kid up to two tablespoonf uls for a larger kid. Give 

 a few drops, three to six, of essence of peppermint with 

 the oil. Follow in an hour with one-half tablet of sul- 

 phocarbolate, dissolved in half a cup of warm water. If 

 the scouring does not cease, make a thin gruel of boiled 

 milk and brown flour, as described above, and feed it at 

 rather frequent intervals in small quantities. 



If the trouble does not yield to this treatment, other 

 suggestions are offered, which may be tried in turn until 

 good results follow. Give the kid an enema of one quart 

 warm water and one tablet of sulphocarbolate dissolved 

 in the water. Add to the boiled milk one tablespoonful 

 of prepared chalk, twice a day. Or, use one tablespoon- 

 ful of lime water in each feed of milk, and one hour after 

 feeding give twenty drops of caripeptic liquid. Give a 

 20 gi-ain dose of subnitrate of bismuth three times in 

 one day. 



In older goats also diarrhoea is usually caused by 

 some disturbing element of the diet, or by too much wet 



