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Title: Animal castration : a book for the use of students and practitioners
Identifier: cu31924021949650 (find matches)
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: White, George Ransom, 1874-
Subjects: Castration
Publisher: Chicago : American Veterinary Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CAPONIZING 137 method of restraint is illustrated iu Figure 114. With a barrel or box used as ail improvised operating table one eord is looped around the wings and another around the legs. The length of these eords depends upon the size of the box or barrel being used. To the free end of each eord a weight- one half briek—is attached. The fowl is now placed on the table and the weights produce snffieient traction on the cords to hold it in proper posi- tion. Another method of restraint favored and used by some is a specially constructed boai-d. See Figure 115. It wdl be observed that a self-locking
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Fig. 123—Testicles of the fowl. staple is used to confine the wings, while the legs are confined by a loop strap with a weight suspended at its end. The holes through the board make it adjustable to all sizes of fowls. Instruments—Several different styles and kinds of instruments for per- forming the caponizing operation are on the American market. Most of them are satisfactory after the operator becomes accustomed to handling them. They consist of: 1. Knife for making abdominal incision. (Fig. 116.) 2. Spreaders or retractors for separating the ribs. (Figs. 117, 118 and 119.)

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