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 . , and the feet are bent down-wards. This is considered to be the hardest position of all to m the ropes, and take a noose around the hocks, and then aroundthe feet; then, by elevating the cow very high behind and pushing backthe foetus, and drawing up the legs and feet into the passage, it can bedelivered. Ninth
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 . , and the feet are bent down-wards. This is considered to be the hardest position of all to m the ropes, and take a noose around the hocks, and then aroundthe feet; then, by elevating the cow very high behind and pushing backthe foetus, and drawing up the legs and feet into the passage, it can bedelivered. Ninth Malpresentati^ya.—The neck is presented in the passage, thehead being bent around to one side and the legs down against the , get the feet up as directed for the first three malpresentations;then turn the head into the passage, as directed for the fourth. We need hardly say that before introducing the hand and arm, in anyof the cases we have mentioned, they should be thoroughly anointed withlard or oil. The exact position of the foetus should be determined beyonda doubt before attempting to change or turn it. These nine malpresentations do not comprise all the difficulties attend-ing parturition ; for there may be abnormal dovelopements of the NINTn presented, with the head turned against the side, and both feet down. rendering it a mechanical impossibility to effect its delivery alive. Bjfar the most common phenomena under this head are hydrocephalicCdrcpsy of the brain) and ascites (dropsy of the belly.) 886 CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AN© COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOB. Hydrocephalus.—This occurs mostly in old, thin cows, but sometimesalso in excessively fine-bred ones. The head must be tapped with the
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