CHAPTER XIV. 



SPEINa MANAGEMENT. 



CATCHING AND HANDLING TUBNING OUT TO GBASS TAG- 

 GING BUKS LAMBING PBOPBR PLACE FOE LAMBING 



MECHANICAL ASSISTANCE IN LAMBING INTEETED WOMB 



MANAGEMENT OF NEW - BOEN LAMBS AETIFICIAl BREED- 

 ING CHILLED LAMBS — CONSTIPATION CUTTING TEETH 



PINNING DIAEEHEA OE PURGING. 



Catching and Handling Sheep. — As nearly every 

 operation of practical sheep husbandry is necessarily attended 

 with the catching and handling of sheep, I wiU 

 make these the first of those practical manipular 

 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 corner, 

 without the shepherd's making a spring for it 

 and thus putting the rest to flight ; and a person 

 accustomed to its use will 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 ceook*. 

 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, 

 is mad6 seven or eight feet long, of light, strong wood. 



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