140 ANIMAL CASTRATION 



dermic injection of 1-100 to 1-50 grain of atropin sul- 

 phate is beneficial. Animals should be placed in com- 

 fortable quarters and unmolested for a few hours until 

 they have had time to recover from all shock incident 

 to the operation. They should be given water ad 

 libitum and offered a gruel of oil meal, shorts and 

 water or other suitable nutritive and laxative food. 

 No special after-care is necessary except to give the 

 subjects every attention to make them as nearly com- 

 fortable as possible. 



If pigs are delivered in a condition to survive, they 

 are best taken away from the sow for six or eight 

 hours, after which time they may be returned, and if 

 the case progresses favorably, she can nurse them al- 

 most as well as though normal delivery had taken 

 place. 



