Breeding, training, management and diseases of the horse and other domestic animals (1893)
Heard, J. M. (John M.) · New York : J.M. Heard · leaf 34
ft: CO CO >< o ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ t ^ooco oooo CO <M ^ ft: W H H w ^ O 02 ^ PM m O DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 29 PARTURITION—FOALING-CALVING, ETC. This is the act of the normai expulsion of the maturefetus. In the higher animals it is a very complicatedphysiological process, and fraught with… … Fig. 4. Cow in the act of parturition. Symptoms.—The preliminary symptoms or signs of ap-proaching parturition are an increased size and sen-sitiveness of the mammae (udder.) The tenderness in-creases until the fetus begins to feed on the milk of themother. The vulva becomes swollen and flabby.…
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