CARE OF THE EWE AND YOUNG LAMB. 12? 



chisel. When no docking pinchers are at hand 

 the stumps may be' corded. 



CASTRATION OP OLD EAMS. 



These docking pinchers are convenient 

 things to have for castration of old rams, or of 

 any sheep past the age of lambhood. The 

 method is to lay the ram on his back ; one man 

 seizes the scrotum and testicles and pulls them 

 out from the body and another simply severs 

 them all together with the docking pinchers 

 used very hot. 



There is no bleeding, though the operation 

 should not be too hastily performed, as there 

 is need of a moment's contact with the hot iron 

 to sear the arteries^ and the application of dis- 

 infectants completes the operation. A thin 

 board may keep the heat from scorching the 

 body. The writer has thus operated on a six- 

 year-old ram and had him get up and go to 

 eating hay quite unconcerned. It is probable 

 that the hot iron destroys the sensibility to 

 pain to quite an extent. 



CASTRATION OF LAMBS. 



Castration of young lambs is a very simple 

 process. The lambs should be two weeks old 

 and strong. The end of the scrotum is cut 

 off, the testicles made to emerge and are then 

 pulled out with the adhering cords. Many 

 shepherds practice seizing them with their 

 teeth; this is the common practice on many 

 Western ranches. It is not usually necessary 

 to apply anything in case of these young lambs 



