Keeping milk goats in India / by J.L. Goheen.

  • John Lawrence Goheen
Date:
1933
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Keeping milk goats in India / by J.L. Goheen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    30 tion fora few minutes until the trouble is over. Be sure — to keep the horny substance evenly trimmed. 3. A large stiff brush, or failing that, a dry rough gourd such as ‘dodaka’, should be kept on hands for the purpose of rubbing or brushing each animal, small and large, not less than 2 or 3 times a week. This will help to keep the skin and hair in good condition and one will also be able to discover any evidences of ticks or lice. If lice are found a good salve to kill them can be made by mixing sweet oil, turmeric powder anda small quantity of fine salt. This should be applied in the places where the lice are found. It will be effective for ticks too, but in either case the quarters where the goats are kept must be thoro- ughly cleaned out with phenyle water, and for ticks it would be well to burn out the place with eithera blast lamp (stove) or wad of cloth soaked in kerosene. Keep a couple of buckets of water ready in case of fire. 4, When the weather is hot it will do no harm to give the goats a nice bath in the middle of the day, say once in two weeks or so, At such times they should be tied in some dry shady place and the excess water should be wiped off their skins so that they may dry off soon. Use soap or soap-seed for making a good lather, and take pains to clean off all of the dirt that may have accumulated on the skin of the animal. If it has been necessary to use the salve mentioned above for the treatment of lice or ticks, a good clean bath will help to get rid of these crea- tures too, say a day or two after the application of the salve. ). When milking one should always make it a point to draw off all of the milk, not leaving any unless for the sucking kids to draw off. If one teat or two are left for the kids, one must make certain that they suck out all that
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