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ANIMAL CASTRATION 



best of the niisfortiine and devise means and metliods to best overeoine 

 that handieap. Select the place — be it hallway, stall or operating room — 

 where the most room is available. Then a proper bed mnst be prepared 

 with tanbark, soft wood shavings, straw, hay, excelsior, sawdnst, etc., or 

 a specially constructed mattress or i3ad may be used. 



Lead the animal to the proper position, put on the twitch, apply the 

 C'onkey self-locking, buckle hobbles and cast it on the left side. (Fig. 1.) 



Wlien cast, the off hind leg should tie released from the hobble strap 

 and with an 18-foot rope loojied above the fetlock (P) and passed over the 

 witliers (Q) and under the neck, then back above the hock (R) the leg 



A safe and satisfactory "single-crimp" emasculator. 



is drawn from over the field of operation. In this position, and thus re- 

 strained, the largest stallion may be castrated without difficulty. 



INSTRUMENTS 



1. Knife — A pro]5erly constructed knife is the first essential instrument 

 required in performing this operation. The Williams all-metal stiff-handle 

 aseptic castrating knife (Fig. 2) is entirely satisfactory for castrating 

 stallions in tlie recumbent posture. 



2. Eiiutsculutof — Tlie only other instrument necessary is an emascu- 

 lator for crushing the spermatic cord in such a manner as to assist nature 

 in controlling hemorrhage. 



