Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.Allen, Richard Lamb
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Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.
Allen, Richard Lamb
Domestic animals
Some oxen have a bad trick of _hauling_ or _crowding_. Changing to
opposite sides, longer or shorter yokes, and more than all, gentle
treatment, are the only remedies, and those not unfrequently fail.
Cattle will seldom contract this habit, in the hands of a judicious,
careful driver. _The yokes_ should be carefully made, and set easy, and
the bows fitted to the necks and properly attached to the yoke. Cattle
are liable to sore necks if used in a storm; and when subject to this
exposure, they must be well rubbed with grease, where the yoke chafes
them, and respite from work should be allowed till the necks heal.
Management of Bulls or Vicious Animals.
If inclined to be vicious, the bulls should have rings thrust through
the cartilage of their nose when young. They are to be found at the
agricultural warehouses; and are made of round iron, three-eighths of an
inch diameter, with a joint in one side to open, and when thrust through
the nose, are fastened in a moment, by a rivet previously prepared.
[Illustration: Fig. 5.
Cattle-Handler.]
Fig. 5 is a _cattle-handler_, consisting of a bar of iron A, eight
inches long, with a ring for a man's hand, which turns on a swivel at B,
and at the other end is a pair of calliper-shaped legs, one stationary,
and the other opening on a joint. The fixed leg is inserted against one
side of the nostril, and the other is pressed upon the opposite side,
and there fastened by a slide, C, when the animal is firmly held for
administering medicine or performing any operation.
[Illustration: Fig. 6. Fig. 7.
For taming savage Animals.]
Figs. 6 and 7, for _taming a bull_; b, in Fig. 6, is a cap screwed on to
the tip of the horn; a c, an iron rod hanging on a pivot in the cap,
with a chain reaching to the ring in the nose. The effect of his
attempting to hook, is illustrated by the various positions of the chain
in Fig. 7. If the rod at a, is pushed in either direction, it jerks up
the nose in a manner that cures him of his inclination.
[Illustration: Fig. 8.
Cattle-Tie.]
Fig. 8, shows a _cattle-tie_.--This is a much more convenient and
comfortable mode of fastening cattle in the stable, than the common
stanchions.
The proper time for turning off Cattle.
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