. Dehorning and castrating cattle. Castration; Dehorning. DEHORNING AND CASTRATING CATTLE. 11 METHOD OF OPERATION. There are two ways of making the incision, depending upon whether or not it is desired to make a fancy feeder of the calf. The first method consists in grasping the scrotum with the left hand and cutting off the lower one-fourth or one-third. This should expose the ends of both testicles, but if one of them can not be seen it can usually be pushed out by pressing on the abdomen by the side of the scrotum. The testicles may then be pulled out one at a time and removed. About 1 inch
. Dehorning and castrating cattle. Castration; Dehorning. DEHORNING AND CASTRATING CATTLE. 11 METHOD OF OPERATION. There are two ways of making the incision, depending upon whether or not it is desired to make a fancy feeder of the calf. The first method consists in grasping the scrotum with the left hand and cutting off the lower one-fourth or one-third. This should expose the ends of both testicles, but if one of them can not be seen it can usually be pushed out by pressing on the abdomen by the side of the scrotum. The testicles may then be pulled out one at a time and removed. About 1 inch of the cord should be removed with the testicle to prevent the severed end from protruding from the incision. In young calves the cord may be cut off directly, but in older calves the cord should be stretched over the forefinger and scraped with the edge of the knife until it parts. This lacerates the ends of the cord and serves to reduce the hemor- rhage. A safer way of severing the cord is by the use of an emasculator, an in- strument shaped like a pair of pliers with a broad, corrugated ^IG- ®'—View of chute with head clamp closed, showing • ^ side gate crushing surface and a cutting edge (fig. 11). With this instrument the cord is cut and at the same time so lacerated as to cause a minimum of bleeding. The ecraseur (fig. 12) is another instrument for severing the cord. With this the crushing is accomplished by a chain loop which is placed around the cord and slowly tightened until the cord is severed. The latter instrument gives the best results, but the emasculator permits of quicker work. The second method consists in slitting the scrotum parallel to the median divides the two sides, instead of cutting off the end as in the first method. The cuts are made directly over the middle of each testicle. The testicles are then taken out through the sepa- rate cuts and removed as already described. In this operation care. Please note that these images are extract
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