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Identifier: poultryproductio00lipp (find matches)
Title: Poultry production
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Lippincott, William Adams, 1882-1931
Subjects: Poultry
Publisher: Philadelphia and New York, Lea & Febiger
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Cockerel in place on caponizing table. (Courtesy of Kansas AgriculturalExperiment Station.) while working. A probe that is blunt at one end and hasa sharp bent point at the other is used in pushing the intes-tines aside to expose the organs and in tearing the thinmembranes that surround the body cavity. And finally,there must be an instrument for removing the testicles.There are several different instruments made for this purpose, THE BREEDING OF CHICKENS 99 and it is largely a matter of preference which is used. Theones used in these illustrations are called the spoon forceps. Fig. 37
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Locating the last two ribs and making the incision. (Courtesy of KansasAgricultural Experiment Station.) Where one is making a business of operating it is a goodthing to have a special table that can be tipped toward thelight, as in Figures 36 and 37. For home use a barrel will donearly as well, as shown in Figure 35. In either case, what is 100 POULTRY PRODUCTION wanted is something that will hold the bird firmly and wellstretched out, at a convenient height. The bird is usually Fig. 38

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