. Animal castration, a book for the use of students and practitioners; . portion of the intestines from the cavity intothat canal. 116 Animal Castration Causes—The experience of others and. my own observationlead me to believe that scrotal hernia of the boar is one condi-tion which can be truthfully laid at the door of hereditary trans-mission in 95 per cent of cases. They are of congenital internal abdominal ring being open at time of birth andnature fails to close it afterwards. In my own practice I recallone sow in particular which presented her owner with a bunchof ruptured pigs
. Animal castration, a book for the use of students and practitioners; . portion of the intestines from the cavity intothat canal. 116 Animal Castration Causes—The experience of others and. my own observationlead me to believe that scrotal hernia of the boar is one condi-tion which can be truthfully laid at the door of hereditary trans-mission in 95 per cent of cases. They are of congenital internal abdominal ring being open at time of birth andnature fails to close it afterwards. In my own practice I recallone sow in particular which presented her owner with a bunchof ruptured pigs twice each year. This sow gave birth to largelitters and was kept as a brood sow on that account. These litterswere usually about equally divided between boar and sow the three years that this sow was under my observationeach and every boar pig to which she gave birth was each year her owner would come—five miles distance—with the pigs in a market wagon for operation, and strange indeedto say he never lost a pig as a result Fig. 89—Ruptured Boar. Objects ami Indications—All ruptured boars should be cas-trated for at least three reasons: (a) Stop their breed in orderto lessen the birth of congenitally ruptured pigs, (b) For Animal Casteation 117 the same reason that boars are usually castrated, viz.: in orderto increase their usefulness and value for food purposes, (c)In order that they may peacefully commingle with other hogs with-out exhibiting the natural and acquired sexual habits of the boar. Most that has been written and published in regard to methodsof procedure is vague and some of it misleading. If the operatorfollows the directions given by some so-called and so consideredauthorities—namely, operation via scrotal incision—he will makea haphazard job and be a monumental failure so far as his per-manent results are concerned. Since the direct cause for thebowel protruding into the inguinal canal and scrotum is on ac-
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