. Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Veterinary medicine. CHAPTER IV. DIGESTIVE APPARATUS. RINGING PIGS. This operation is customary in countries where pigs are allo^Yed to roam more or less at liberty, and it is necessary to adopt some pre- caution to prevent them from uprooting the soil and thus causing damage, but the practice tends nowadays to disappear. It simply consists in passing through the nose some object which on being rubbed against anything causes pain and thus checks the animal's natural proclivity. Numerous methods have been suggested. One of the simplest is as follows
. Diseases of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Veterinary medicine. CHAPTER IV. DIGESTIVE APPARATUS. RINGING PIGS. This operation is customary in countries where pigs are allo^Yed to roam more or less at liberty, and it is necessary to adopt some pre- caution to prevent them from uprooting the soil and thus causing damage, but the practice tends nowadays to disappear. It simply consists in passing through the nose some object which on being rubbed against anything causes pain and thus checks the animal's natural proclivity. Numerous methods have been suggested. One of the simplest is as follows: The animal having been cast, suit- ably secured and muzzled, two thick iron wires sharpened at the ends are passed through the snout, and the two ends are then twisted together in the form of two rings. These can, if necessary, be united. Another method, perhaps even more efficacious, consists in bending a thick wire into the shape of the letter (J, and preparing a small metal plate with two holes corresponding in position to the distance between the two nostrils. The ends of the wire, being sharpened, are passed through the nostrils and securely united to the metal plate by being bent into a spiral or simply at right Fig. 300. Ringing" the pig. OESOPHAGUS. The operations practised on the oesophagus comprise passage of the oesophageal sound or probang, taxis, crushing of foreign bodies within the oesophagus, and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Moussu, Gustave, 1864-; Dollar, Jno. A. W. (John A. W. ). Chicago : American Veterinary Pub. Co.
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