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Show Easy Way to Drive Sows to Prevent Excitement At farrowing time it is' not always an easy matter to drive a heavy brood sow from the yard into the pen in the hog house where she is to farrow. To save time and undue excitement of the sow, use a simple device that can easily be made. Make a bottomless crate of light but strong boards. The length of the crate ought to be at least six feet, a little longer than the largest sow to be handled and a little higher than the sow- stands, say about three and one-half feet. The crate need not be clumsily or heavily made. It must be light enough for one man to carry. When the sow to be put In the pen is eating or nosing about the ground, step up with the crate and quietly slip it over her. As she cannot turn around in it, she will walk forward; and as she walks, a man can guide her to the door of the pen, lift up one end of the crate and allow her to walk into the pen. |