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ANIMAL CASTRATION 



animals. Tliis illustration was purposely made from a grown hen. One 

 object being to enaJjle the amateur operator to know the comparative dif- 

 ference between the internal genitals of a hen and those of a pullet of 

 ])roper age and size for operation. Fig. 208 shows the organs after being 

 removed from the abdominal cavity of tlie lien. They consist of (A) egg 



Fig. 208 — Internal genitals of hen. A, Egg cluster; B-B, egg passage; C, cloaca; 

 D. frimbriated extremity of fallopian tube. 



cluster, (B-B) egg passage, (C) cloaca, (D) fimbriated extremity of the fal- 

 lopian tttbes. The egg cluster lies in close iiroximity to the vertebral column, 

 slightly ])osterior to the lungs. From it tlie fallopian tulie and egg passage 

 proceed backward — in close relation to the vertebral column, aorta and 

 vena cava — to its outlet — cloaca. In the pullet the egg cluster and egg 

 passage are small. (Fig. 209.) 



