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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEB. 18, 1926.
HEM EWE 1055 !S
DUE TO OVERFEEDING
By H. W. LYTLE, State Veterinarian.
Pregnant ewe paralysis and condi
tions due to advanced pregnancy are
becoming more common yearly.
Doubtless this condition bears a rela
tionship to the high price levels of
sheep. At least part of the disorder
is due to errors in feeding brought
about by a desire to get a maximum
lamb crop by saving a large percent
of the twins. In an effort to so feed
the ewe that she may give a goodly
milk supply the feeding is occasional
ly pushed too far and the ewe be
comes too fat. The large amount of
fat around the kidneys and on the
paul, together with the pressure
from the growing twin or triplet
lambs, makes a condition present if
coarse, bulky feeds are used as rough
aget, that causes uremic poisoning
or uremic coma and is probably
caused by so much pressure being
forced against the kidneys that they
cannot function and take the ures
out of the blood or else the ureters
(the ducts that lead from the kidney
to the bladder) can not empty the
waste materials from the kidney be
cause they are pressed closed.
There is another condition in old
ewes that is due to under nourish
ment and is a paralysis of exhaus
tion, being unable to stand and carry
the large lamb or twins. Treatment
of these cases will-be purely that of
good care and nourishing feed.
Because there was 'a general un
loading of old ewes last year on to
small ranch farmers in the range sec
tions of the state, some of this old
ewe under-nourished paralysis may
be looked for this winter. A diagno
sis is made by noticing the absence
of fat on the carcass and generally a
broken mouthed ewe.
The normal loss of ewes is perhaps
not thoroughly understood by all.
statistics gathered in Oregon and
Idaho from about 150,000 sheep in
each state indicate that the average
loss on ranch run nocks is twelve
hundred during the year. This is
from disease, accident, predatory ani
mala and all causes. In the Willam
ette Valley it may be slightly less as
the year around green feed and ab
sence of predatory animals may cut
this down. The range loss of ewes
is about SM. Many inexperienced
growers will be somewhat surprised
when they learn of this, but it is a
normal, whether altogether necessary,
loss compiled from carefully gathered
statistics.
Treatment in those cases of preg
nant ewe paralysis that are due to
errors of diet, nothing will afford re-
lier but to change the method of feed
ing and handling pf the herd. In
pregnant ewes a reasonable amount
of exercise is necessary. Fattening
feeds should be avoided and ewes
should be forced to take exercise by
having them trail behind- the hay
wagon for two miles or more daily.
Feeds in which there is a liberal sup
ply of lime and sugar or molasses,
will be found highly beneficial and
there are good reasons for supple
menting all pregnant ewe rations that
contain much roughage or ensilage
with lime and molasses and some of
the mineral feeds. Rough, coarse hay
such as some of the first cutting of
alfalfa hay and wild feeds, and
swamp grass will cause a paralysis of
pregnant ewes. Whether this is be
cause of the indigestible nature or
due to its lack of lime content, or
whether because of its lack of nutri
ment elements, is difficult to say, but
it is the experience of many breeders
that coarse. and wild hay will cause a
paralysis in pregnant ewes. Exercise
and a change to some of the more
nourishing and succulent feeds gen
erally affords relief.
- Over feeding and under exercising
is the cause of much of pregnant
ewe paralysis. This condition is fre
quently Been in crossbred ewes which
are good feeders and not so easy to
handle as the bred ewes which are
good feeders and not so easy to han
dle as the Merino ewe which seems to
have more the instincts of the mule
when it comes to handling food. The
experienced feeder will have less of
this trouble than the sheep owner
who is making his first change from
range lambing to winter lambing.
There is always that desire to get the
ewe to that stage of condition where
she will secrete a goodly amount of
milk. Corral feeding is not conduc
tive to exercise and lack of exercise
is conductive to constipation which is
closely associated with auto-intoxication
and albuminuria and uremic
poisoning, which all produce a par
alysis that is highly fatal. When par
alysis appears from over feeding and
under exercising, cut the feed to less
than one-half, reduce the roughages
and increase the concentrates and
cause the animals to exercise by
driving them three miles or more per
day through lanes or on the range,
or force them to trail for feed behind
a hay wagon. In one or two days
added improvement will be noted and
new cases will cease. Grain doses of
morphine hypodermically given by a
veterinarian have proved successful
treatment for ailing animals often.
BOARDMAN
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MRS. A. T. HEREIM, Correspondent
No new cases of small pox except
in families already quarantined.
Church and Sunday school service?
will be held on Sunday, Feb. 21, and
school will open on the 22nd. We
are filad to report that no serious re
sults have come from this disease
except with Leo Root who has had
difficulty with one of his eyes. He
had such a severe attack of the dis
ease, and it left this eye in bad shape.
He went to Pendleton Saturday to
consult Dr. McKenzie, the eye spec
ialist and we are glad to report that
he is improving.
A fine big girl was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Howard B. Caikins this week in
Portland.
. Earl Cramer of Portland visited nis
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cramer,
for a few days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. 0. King has a fine
8-pound boy who arrived Monday,
February 15. Mrs. King is at Mrs.
O. H. Warner's.
M1ss Helen Fleck nd brother Fran
cis spent the week end at the Leo
Mead home. Helen Mead returned
home with them to The Dalles and
will visit for a few days.
Sam Shell has been quite ill but is
reported as being much improved.
Little Bobby Morgan of Pendleton,
who broke his leg recently when he
fell off his tricycle, is getting along
nicely. The weight has been removed
from his leg and the plaster cast will
be taken off next week.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Pattee and baby
came Sunday from Condon for a few
days' visit at the 0. B. Olson home.
The W. H. Mefford family is now
out of quarantine after a long siege
of small pox.
John Olson, who has been at the 0.
B. Olson home since Christmas, left
Sunday for Prescott, Ore., to resume
his woTk.
Mrs. T. E. Broyles, Roscoe and
Grace all have the small pox now.
Erma has recovered.
R. Rands is working at the island
now. There is a big crew employed
on the Blalock Island poject and much
has been acocmplished.
Little Maxine Cooney is convalesc
ing from a bad siege of whooping
ccrugh. This is the only case on the
project so far as fs known.
0. H. Warner, who has been ill for
some time, is much improved and in
stead of going to Pendleton biweekly
to consult his physciian he goes every
fortnight. He has been having Brights
disease.
A. B. Chaffee, deputy sheriff, held
a sale of the Royer household goods
on Saturday at Boardman to satisfy
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Alfalfa Meal, 100 lbs - 1.75
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Sure Milk, 100 lbs 2.50
Calf Meal, 25 lbs 1.85
a judgment held by Harry Warren
against the Royers for a grocery bill.
Mr. Warren was up from Portland to
attend the sale and settle business
matters in connection with it. '
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Gorham and
family were guests at the John Pruter
home Sunday at a most delicious din
ner. Mrs. Dan Ransier and baby returned
Sunday from Pendleton where she
has been visiting her sister for some
time.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Price and son
Billy were entertained at a pleasant
dinner on Sunday by W. A. Goodwin.
Mr. Goodwin's culinary abilities are
manifold.
Earl Olson is getting along as well
as could be expected. He has been
making daily trips to Pendleton to
have his arm dressed. After the ac
cident he refused to take an anaes
thetic, either general or local, and he
had one large piece of bone removed
from the elbow and several small
ones, and several stitches taken. Dr.
Wainscott has charge of the ' case.
Earl was injured 2 weeks ago whe,n
on the Smith Duggan baler the fork
full of hay was tripped too soon and
Earl was knocked from the table
against the fly wheel and his arm ter
ribly crushed just at the elbow.
G. C. Taylor of the Reclamation
Service of Hermiston was here Sun
day looking over the project.
The S. H. Boardman family were
released from quarantine on Tuesday
of this week.
A. T. Hereim, Jr., was a victim of
the mumps last week.
The pastime has changed hands and
C. S. Wood took charge Tuesday.
W. A. Goodwin celebrated his 68th
birthday Sunday by cooking a big
dinner, having as guests Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Price and son Billie, Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Goodwin, and Maurice
Goodwin. Little Billie Price enter
tained them by reciting his little reci
tations. Arthur Mefford arrived Saturday
from Sacramento, Calif., for a short
visit with the home folks.
NOTICE.
All persons holding notes or ac
counts against Matt T. Hughes, please
mail statement of their claim to J.
B. Perry, Box 498, Pendleton, Oregon.
ALPINE
John Doherty arrived home about
a week ago from Spokane, after hav
ing finished the semester's work
where he was attending college.
Mrs. Bertha McDaniel, the princi
pal and teacher of Alpine high school,
was ill a week ago Monday, so the
students left school at noon and
played hookey the rest of the day.
After tramping over the sanddunea
they wearily returned to the school
house to find Mrs. McDaniel much
improved.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Melville and
daughter motored to Pendleton on
Thursday last, accompanied as far as
Reith by Mrs. Dan Lindsay and young
son, Bruce. '
Miss Rosella Doherty was visitor
at the home of Bernice and Bertha
Sepanek on the night of February 11.
Mrs. Chas. Schmidt and family were
visitors in Hermiston at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. George Legler, Satur
day afternoon and spent the evening
in town.
Mrs. G. L, Bennett has been taking
care of her lister in Pendleton for
the last three weeks and is not ex
pected home for some time.
The Literary society meeting that
was to have been held at the Hods
don school house on Thursday, was
postponed till Friday night, Feb. 19.
L08T A black ring necked dog.
Reward. Notify Ralph Thompson,
Heppner.
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Republican candidate for
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