Castration of Pigs Having 

 Scrotal Hernia 



By D. M. Campbell, D. V. S., Chicago 



Cases of scrotal hernia in pigs or a rupture 

 as the farmer calls it is a markedly hereditary 

 condition. On some farms from year to year 

 there are numerous cases of this kind among the 

 pigs; on other farms this condition is scarcely 

 known, its presence or absence depending, as may 

 easily be demonstrated, upon heredity. 



Some farmers castrate these pigs as readily as 

 they castrate their ordinary boar pigs, but a great 

 many others find the operation difficult or are en- 

 tirely unable to perform it and with them such 

 pigs are usually destroyed as soon as the hernia 

 is noted or the condition is allowed to grow worse 

 until death results from strangulation of the in- 

 testine or from a traumatism to the scrotum. 



