CHAPTER XIV, 



SPEING MANAGEMENT. 



CATCHING AND HANDLING — TURNING OUT TO GEASS — TAG- 

 GING BUES LAMBING PEOPEE PLACE FOE LAMBING 



MECHANICAL ASSISTANCE IN LAMBING INTBKTED WOMB 



MANAGEMENT OE NEW - BOEN LAMBS AKTIPICIAL BEBED- 



ING CHILLED LAMBS CONSTIPATION CUTTING TEETH 



PINNING DIAEKHEA OE PUEGING. 



Catching and Handling Sheep. — ^^As nearly every 

 operation of practical sheep husbandry is necessarily attended 

 with the catching and handling of sheep, I will 

 make these the first of those practical manipula- 

 tions which I am now to describe. A sheep 

 should always be caught by throwing the hands 

 about the neck; or by seizing one hind leg 

 immediately above the hock with the hand ; or 

 by hooking the crook round it at the same place. 

 When thus caught by the hand, the sheep should 

 be drawn gently back until the disengaged hand 

 can be placed in front of its neck. The crook 

 is very convenient to reach out and draw a sheep 

 from a number huddled by a dog or in a comer, 

 without the shepherd's making a spring for it 

 and thus putting the rest to flight ; and a person 

 accustomed to its use wiU catch moderately tame 

 sheep almost anywhere with this implement. 

 But it must be handled with care. It should be 

 used with a quick but gentle motion — and the 

 caught sheep immediately drawn back rapidly cbook*. 

 enough to prevent it from springing to one side or the other, 

 and thus wrenching the leg, or throwing itself down, by 

 exerting its force at an angle with the line of draft in the 



* The cut represents the crook with but a small portion of the handle, 

 ia made seven or eight feet long, of light, strong wood. 



This 



