Animal castration : a book for the use of students and practitioners . holding food for thirty hours before castration. No physic shouldbe allow^ed, as an empty bowel irritated by purgative medicationis a predisposing cause of dangeious sequelae such as colic, peri-tonitis, volvulus, etc. An empty alimentary tract is desirable onaccount of affording greater intra-abdominal room and lesseningthe possibility of bowel protrusion through the inguinal canal. Restraint—There are manv kinds and stvles of restraint har- Animal Castration 55 iiess and ropes with which a ridgiiiig horse may be cast and
Animal castration : a book for the use of students and practitioners . holding food for thirty hours before castration. No physic shouldbe allow^ed, as an empty bowel irritated by purgative medicationis a predisposing cause of dangeious sequelae such as colic, peri-tonitis, volvulus, etc. An empty alimentary tract is desirable onaccount of affording greater intra-abdominal room and lesseningthe possibility of bowel protrusion through the inguinal canal. Restraint—There are manv kinds and stvles of restraint har- Animal Castration 55 iiess and ropes with which a ridgiiiig horse may be cast and tiedsatisfactorily. The main object to be constantly borne in mindis the fact that first of all the restraint must be safe and animal must be tied in such a manner that the latitude formovement is minimized as much as possible. Position must alsobe considered. One of the simplest and most satisfactory castingharness for castration of Ridglings is that of Knowles. TheKnowles harness have been used for several years by the authorwith satisfactorv Fig. 37—Knowles Casting Harness Applied. The casting and securing harness illustrated in Fig. 37 weredesigned by W. F. Knowles. These harness are made in large andsmall sizes. The large size fits horses weighing 900 pounds or more,,and small size harness fits those of from 400 to 900 pounds. This apparatus is light, compact, and convenient to properly used it affords ample restraint for all ordinarypurposes. It consists of a flat webbing collar, two main ropesand two hobbles. The collar (B) is in two sections; each section isconnected on each side of the horse by heavy double rings, one ofwhich is of special design to afford easy passage of the two mainropes (D, G). The ropes (D, G) are each five-eighths inch in 56 , (ASlHAnoX diameter and thirty feet long. One end is seeureiy fastened intothe inner ring of the weh])ing breast collar. Aionnd each pastern(E, H) is placed a webbing hobble. In each
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