LARYNGITIS IN SHEEP.
Infrequency. Causes, damp lands, storms, close buildings, clipping. Symptoms, cough, sneezing, discharge, snuffling, oral breathing, tender throat. Treatment, ventilation, warm water vapor, sulphur dioxide, salines.
Sore throat is fortunately even more rare than in the larger ruminants. It occurs chiefly where this animal, constituted to feed on the dainty grasses of the dry mountain side, is kept on cold, marshy ground and exposed to frequent cold, wet blasts. Sheep suffer also from hot, close, filthy buildings in winter, and from unseasonable clipping.
The symptoms are frequent coughing and sneezing, running from the nose, working of the jaws, and breathing through the open mouth as being easier than through the plugged nostrils. The larynx is tender and may be swollen.
Treatment is usually confined to ventilation and cleansing of the fold, frequent fumigations with water vapor from the spout of a boiling kettle, and with sulphur fumes, and giving tepid farinaceous gruels or mashes containing sulphate of soda in the daily proportion of two pounds to each hundred head of sheep. Sal ammoniac may be given in food or drinking water.