Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . bent back. back, the head may be entirely expelled, the neck being in the passageand the shoulders against the rim of the nelvis. If the foetus remainp 882 CYCLOPEDIA OP LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. long in this condition, the head swells so as to render it utterly impos-sible to push it back, and the calf dies of c


Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings . bent back. back, the head may be entirely expelled, the neck being in the passageand the shoulders against the rim of the nelvis. If the foetus remainp 882 CYCLOPEDIA OP LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOR. long in this condition, the head swells so as to render it utterly impos-sible to push it back, and the calf dies of course,—he is choked to this extreme, the only feasible plan is to cut the head off, then pushthe body back and get the feet as directed for the first a case once occurred in the practice of the writer ; it was managedin this way, securing delivery without trouble, and saving the cow. The forosroiiig applies only when the head is swollen. When this is notthe case, push the head back and bring up the feet as before described. Fourth 3IaIpresentatW7i.—In this the fore feet are both presented,but the head is turned back against the side. Tie the rope to the feet,iind carry a piece of it in, with a view of getting it into the mouth and. FOURTH fore feet in the passage, the head turned back on the side. around one of the jaws. Failing in the latter effort, hook the straighthook into the eye socket, and then push the feet back, till the head canbe brought into the passage. Fifth MaJpreseniation,—Here, the foetus is lying on his back, with thepoll presented and the feet bent back upon the belly. Delivery may bemade in this position, but the nose and feet must be brought into thepassage fiist. To do this, pass in a noose for each foot, and another forthe upper jaw, putting it in the mouth ; then push the calf back, so thoseparts can be liberated and brought up. Carefully gujrird the womb fromlaceration by the toes, in all cases. Wh


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