A condition of cattle in drought-affected areas, in which the dried-out folds of the stomach resemble the pages of a book.
half the herd would die of dry bible
Example sentencesExamples
- What are the first signs of dry bible in cows?
- We've already had dry bible in our district.
- Dry bible is causing considerable mortality among sheep in South Australia.
- The disease was known to the laity as "dry bible" and ascribed to the dry nature of the feed.
- The disease produced is sometimes known as "Dry Bible".
- Perhaps the most common opinion held is that poison peach causes dry bible, which is impaction of the third stomach of ruminants.
- A high proportion of this class of beast has an acid reaction with the urine, which is also the case in dry bible, and in some forms of coast disease.
- If sheep are affected with dry bible what could be done to prevent it?
- In Queensland it is tick fever in another dry bible and in another there is coast disease and so on.
- In 1907 there were were 47,480 deaths from dry bible.