fore limb be removed unless the shoulder blade is taken with
it, as that furnishes the greatest obstruction to delivery, above all
when it is no longer advanced by the extension of the fore limb, but is
pressed back so as to increase the already thickest posterior portion of
the chest. The preservation of the skin from the whole limb is
advantageous in various ways; it is easier to cut it circularly at the
fetlock than at the shoulder; it covers the hand and knife in making the
needful incisions, thus acting as a protection to the womb; and it
affords a means of traction on the body after the limb has been removed.
In dissecting the skin from the limb the knife is not needful at all
points; much of it may be stripped off with the fingers or knuckles, or
by a blunt, iron spud, pushed up inside the hide, which is meanwhile
held tense to render the spud effective.

In case the limb is bent forward at the hock, a rope is passed round
that and pulled so as to bring the point of the hock between the lips of
the vulva. The hamstring and the lateral ligaments of the hock are now
cut through, and the limbs extended by a rope tied round the lower end
of the long bone above (tibia). In case it is still needful to remove
the upper part of the limb, the further procedure is the same as
described in the last paragraph.

In case the limb is turned forward from the hip, and the fetus so wedged
into the passage that turning is impossible, the case is very difficult.
I have repeatedly succeeded by cutting in on the hip joint and
disarticulating it, then dissecting the muscles back from the upper end
of the thigh bone. A noose was placed around the neck of the bone and
pulled on forcibly, while any unduly resisting structures were cut with
the knife.

Cartwright recommends to make free incisions round the hip joints and
tear through the muscles when they can not be cut; then with cords round
the pelvic bones, and hooks inserted in the openings in the floor of the
pelvis to drag out the pelvic bones; then put cords around the heads of
the thigh bones and extract them; then remove the intestines; finally,
by means of the loose, detached skin, draw out the body with the
remainder of the hind limbs bent forward beneath it.

Reuff cuts his way into the pelvis of the foal, and with a knife
separates the pelvic bones from the loins, then skinning the quarter
draws out these pelvic bones by means of ropes and hooks, and along with
them the hi