Anudder Whatzit

[Magicman]

8) 8)  I guessed it, cool. 

Shoulda known that it was something to do with supper..... :D

[Paul_H]

Otherwise it does look like a fruit picking implement as Paul said...

So close

[sawman]

 IMERC thats usually the best way to do things.

and Magicman got food into the subject.

                                                     

[fishpharmer]

8) 8)  I guessed it, cool. 

Shoulda known that it was something to do with supper..... :D

That's my best subject ;)

[DanG]

Fishpharmer, before your head swells up any bigger, I'd like to know where you got the notion that one might need to hold a male rabbit for breeding. ??? :D :D :D

[fishpharmer]

DanG, nothing gets past you.  I was thinking more along the lines of AI for show rabbits.  And that may not exist.  I know for cattle the females are restrained while being ......er  AI'd ;) .    But before that happens, a happy bull is fooled into being a donor.  So I was figurin it could be a donor buck ( I think that's a daddy bunny) could be held in such a contraption while being fooled into being a donor.  I said male rabbit for breeding not for being bred ;D

Really, that where that came from 8)

[DanG]

I tink dats all de far I'm goin wit dat! :D :D :D

[pigman]

An interesting contraption.  Ok if that was  1955 model, how do they do it now?  Don't pull with teeth :D

I had no clue what that thing was and I have castrated thousands of little pigs. I had a pig holder for the deed, but I don't think I could describe it so anyone would understand.  I could do about ten pigs a minute if someone was handing me the pigs.

[beenthere]

This looks like a device that a single person could use for the "operative" procedure.

Always been at least two when I was asked to help.

And prolly more catchin and holdin for pigman if he was doin ten a minute.  8)

And videos.........??   we like videos.  ;D ;D

[asy]

Um... Not sure I understand Beenthere...

You want to see a video of Pigman castrating 10 piggies a minute? 

Is that right???   

I don't see any piggies volunteering to star in that!!!   

asy :D

[pigman]

I never had anyone to hold the pig, that was what the pig holder was for. One end of the holder had a tapered area to hold the head and the back legs were held by a slide bar that I held with my leg. I did have help sometimes to catch the pigs and give vacination shots. I would get a picture of my holder, but I think I gave it away when I quit the business. If I had to do everything, then I could only do about 4 or 5 pigs a minute.

[beenthere]

That technique sounds like it worked pretty good.
After catching and holding pigs for a morning, the clothes needed a good washing.  ;D

When I worked for a vet way back, we would do the cats in a zippered overshoe (think galloshes).

[Gary_C]

Here is the one I recall seeing.

Pig Holder

I guess pigman will have to tell how it is used but I know you put the back legs over one loop and under the other.

[pigman]

Gary, you will have to explain that holder to me. :-\

The holder I had was  made by me out of 1/2" steel rod and two short pieces of pipe. I coppied it from a commercial verson I saw at a equipment show. I was poor at the time and just went home and made one in about an hour  and saved the $40 cost. I tried to find one on the internet like the one I made, but with no luck. The company probably quit making them since most people, like me,  just copied the design and made their own.

[Gary_C]

Gary, you will have to explain that holder to me. :-\

I was never a pig farmer but I smelled one once.   

[beenthere]

And can remember the dairy farmer smell too, 'specially after he had been throwing down silage and milking. Then he shows up in the grocery store or the local hardware store.   Hafta admit I didn't mind either of the two smells.  ;D

But it was some years after I left home that I understood why my mother made me leave my clothes in the garage when coming home from the farm up the road where I worked.
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