Livestock Botanical Veterinary Manual

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• Chapter 8 The Cow, the Pig and the Hen

The rows that check it

• 1 confirmed
• 5 amended
• 2 unresolved
• 5 marked for safety

• A10 amended Safety Lidocaine max 8–10 mg/kg cattle, 4–6 mg/kg sheep and goats; cornual block 5–10 ml of 2 % solution, 10 min; the one drug worth keeping with calcium
• A5 amended Safety Bloat: wet clover on empty stomach, left flank, kills in an hour; walk, stick across mouth, 0.5 l vegetable oil or paraffin; trocar at highest point left flank, a hand below spine …
• A7 amended Safety Nitrate NO3-N ppm DM: <1,500 safe; 1,500–5,000 half the ration with safe hay; 5,000–9,000 a third; >9,000 never; frosted, drought-stressed or over-manured green crops; …
• A8 amended Safety Acorns poison cattle and sheep (kidney), pigs and goats tolerant; antidote 10 % hydrated lime in feed; the Broker's answer a fence
• A9 amended Safety Comfrey external use only (pyrrolizidine alkaloids, liver); wormwood contains thujone, old wormers killed animals; library gives no dose for any herb
• A25 confirmed Breed yields 7,000–11,000 kg (Fleckvieh etc.), Dexter 2,000–3,500, are concentrate-fed; forage-only 3,250–7,000 kg, 6,000 kg baseline = 16 l/day
• A54 unresolved CMT: 3 % sodium lauryl sulphate + bromocresol purple, equal parts with 2 ml milk, swirl 10 s, scores 0/T/1/2/3, gel ≈ >310,000 cells/ml; udder paste turmeric-ginger-salt twice …
• A55 unresolved Herb list (thyme, oregano, sage, turmeric, ginger, linseed, psyllium, sweet chestnut, tormentil, oak bark, St John's wort, calendula, garlic, comfrey, wormwood) with no dose; …

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