Fig. 289.—A, “bulldogs” operated by a screw; B, “bulldogs” with a sliding ring.
Another, though less practical, method consists in using two long ropes, each fixed to the base of the horns and passed first between the front, then the hind limbs, round the hind pasterns from within outwards and then brought forward (Fig. 292). When the ropes are drawn tight by assistants standing in front of the animal, the latter usually falls on its hocks and rolls over to the right or left, according to the direction given to it.
A third method is particularly useful in young or feeble animals. It consists in fixing around the horns a rope about eight to ten yards in length, the free end of which is carried along the upper margin of the neck and back. A loop is formed embracing the base of the neck, a second behind the shoulders in the region occupied by the girth, and a third around the flanks (Fig. 293). By pulling in a backward direction the rope is drawn tight, and the animal first backs and afterwards falls on its hocks, subsiding either to the right or left, as in the case previously mentioned.
Fig. 290.—Nose ring open for insertion.
Fig. 291.—Nose ring closed.
In using either of these two methods it is very important, as soon as the animal falls, to secure the limbs in a certain way, according to the nature of the operation to be performed. This can be effected with hobbles and ropes passed round the hocks, above the knee, etc.
CONTROL OF SHEEP AND GOATS.
The above animals may be secured, whilst standing, by grasping the head and neck or, when cast by crossing the front and hind limbs in the form of an X and tying a soft rope or piece of webbing round the crossing of the limbs.