Show cause of heaves heaves emphysema of the lungs is a caused by overfeeding over feeding the horse hay bay especially dusty timothy hay or threshed clover hay and working I 1 it t immediately after a meal when the digestive organs are dist distended endea declares a writer in hoards boards dairyman indigestion results and irritates the astruc nerve of tile the stomach and in time the branch of that nerve supplying the lungs also becomes affected the lungs can then no longer perfectly expel air and the abdominal muscles have to be used to help expulsion that causes the double bel lows like action of the flanks and the gas expelled during the coughl coughing ng spells Is caused by the indigestion the te disease Is incurable when established |