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while the other side is draining. When the second side 
is filled, the first side has sufficiently drained so that they 
can be turned out. When poisonous dips are used, the 
sheep need to be well drained before they are turned out — 
to pasture, to avoid poisoning the grass. However, this 
danger is not as great as one might think, and if the sheep 
are not too closely confined, the amount of arsenic they 
would consume while eating grass is not sufficient to 
harm them. Some shepherds use the arsenic dip in 
minute quantities for treating lambs for stomach worms, 
but there is a possible danger even in this. 
Dodging chute. 
Farmers having small flocks separate them by “legging 
out”’ the sheep, as they call it. This is a very bad practice 
and should not be continued. A little money invested 
in a dodging chute saves much time and labor as well as 
injury to the sheep. There is absolutely no better way of 
separating lambs from their ewes than by running the 
flock through the dodging chute. One might think that 
the matter of separating lambs from the ewes would be 
simple and that all that would be necessary would be to 
catch the lambs and lift them over the panels into a 
second pen. Experience shows that such a practice very 
often results in some lame lambs. Lambs at weaning 
time are very tender, and injuries of this sort mean the 
loss of the lamb. A dodging chute consists of a long 
narrow chute at the end of which is a swinging gate which 
opens into two pens. The main essential of a dodging 
chute is length. The longer the chute, the better and 
faster the sheep will travel through and the greater the 
opportunity the operator of the dodge gate has to observe 
his sheep and decide into which pen they go. 
