CHAPTER XV. 



SPEING MANAGEMENT - CONTINUED. 



lONGENlTAl QOITEE — IMPEEFECTLT DEVELOPED LAMBS — 



BHEUMATISM TEEATMENT OF THE EWE AETEE LAMBING 



CLOSED TEATS UNEASINESS INFLAMED UDDEK 



DETING OFF DISOWNING LAMBS FOSTEE LAMBS 



DOCKING LAMBS CASTEATION. 



Congenital Goitee, oe Swelled Neck. — The thyroid 

 glands are small, soft, spongy bodies on each side of the upper 

 (ortion of the trachea, (wind -pipe.) Lambs are sometimes 

 lorn with them enlarged to once or twice the size of an 

 Imond, and they then have the feeling of a firm, separate body, 

 yiag between the cellular tissue and the muscles of the neck. 

 ?he lamb thus afiected is generally small and lean, or if it 

 3 large and plump it has a soft, jelly-like feeling, as if its 

 auscular tissues were imperfectly developed. In either case, 

 he bones are unnaturally small. It is excessively weak — 

 be plump, soft ones being often unable to stand, and usually 

 ying soon after birth. The others perhaps linger a little 

 jnger — sometimes several days — but they perish on the 

 jast exposure. So far as my observations have extended this 

 ondition always, to a greater or lesser extent, accompanies 

 lie glandular enlargement under consideration; but it also 

 ppears without it, and, as I shall presently show, sometimes 

 a highly destructive extent. 



Having early adopted the view that the j)reservation of 

 de life of a lamb, which is incapable of attaining that full 

 tructural development on which the vigor of the constitution 

 epends, is a loss instead of a gain — and being_ specially 

 verse to tolerating in a breeding flock any animal even 

 mpected of beLug capable of carrying along and transmitting 



hereditary disease — I never have applied any remedy 

 whatever for " swelled neck." I have seen very little of it 

 )r the last few years ; but events in 1862, presently to be 

 lentioned, have surrounded the subject with new interest. 



