. Animal castration; a book for the use of students and practitioners. Castration; Spaying. 14 ANIMAL CASTRATION best of the misfortune and devise means and methods to best overcome that handicap. Select the place—be it hallway, stall or operating room— where the most room is available. Then a proper bed must be prepared with tanbark, soft wood shavings, straw, hay, excelsior, sawdust, etc., or a specially constructed mattress or pad may be used. Lead the animal to the proper position, put on the twitch, apply the Conkey self-locking, buckle hobbles and cast it on the left side. (Fig. 1.) When
. Animal castration; a book for the use of students and practitioners. Castration; Spaying. 14 ANIMAL CASTRATION best of the misfortune and devise means and methods to best overcome that handicap. Select the place—be it hallway, stall or operating room— where the most room is available. Then a proper bed must be prepared with tanbark, soft wood shavings, straw, hay, excelsior, sawdust, etc., or a specially constructed mattress or pad may be used. Lead the animal to the proper position, put on the twitch, apply the Conkey self-locking, buckle hobbles and cast it on the left side. (Fig. 1.) When cast, the off hind leg should be released from the hobble strap and with an 18-foot rope looped above the fetlock (P) and passed over the withers (Q) and under the neck, then back above the hock (R) the leg. Fig. -A safe and satisfactory "single-crimp" emasculator. is drawn from over the field of operation. In this position, and thus re- strained, the largest stallion may be castrated without difficulty. INSTRUMENTS 1. Knife—A properly constructed knife is the first essential instrument required in performing this operation. The Williams all-metal stiff-handle aseptic castrating knife (Fig. 2) is entirely satisfactory for castrating stallions in the recumbent posture. 2. Emasculator—The only other instrument necessary is an emascu- lator for crushing the spermatic cord in such a manner as to assist nature in controlling 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 White, George R. (George Ransom), 1874-. Chicago, American Veterinay Pub. Co.
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