CHAPTER XIY. 



SPEING MANAGEMENT. 



CATCHING AND HANDLING T0BNING OUT TO GBASS TAG- 

 GING BURS tAMBING PEOPBE PLACE FOE LAMBING 



MECHANICAL ASSISTANCE IN LAMBING INTBETED WOMB 



MANAGEMENT OF NEW - BOEN LAMBS AETIFICIAL BEEED- 



ING CHILLED LAMBS —r CONSTIPATION CUTTING TEETH 



PINNING — DIAEEHEA OE PUK6ING. 



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 shoidd 

 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 i^. 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 w:ill 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 naotion — and the 8Hj,pj,j.j,j,- 

 caught sheep immediately drawn back rapidly ckook*. 

 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 cnt represents the crook with bnt a small portion of the handle, 

 is made s^ven or eight feet long, of light, strong wood. 



This 



