DON’T “TWIST HER TAIL”
The usual method for inducing a calf or cow to respond to the dairyman’s wishes is to “twist her tail.” This procedure is established through long usage ; a dairyman involuntarily uses it to make an animal rise or move into the stanchion or out the door. All cowmen recognise its propensity for securing desired results. But it also has some undesirable results. In a great many dairy herds there are animals with deformed, dislocated and broken tails. A method better than twisting the tail can be used. A calf or cow has a “crazy bone” in the end of the tail like the one every man has detected in his elbow when he has bumped it. This coccygeal nerve in the tail is not well concealed but readily exposed. If one presses the end of his thumb nail directly against the end of the tail he can touch the “button” and get instantaneous response in the animals; results are readily forthcoming.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 9, 4 December 1931, Page 3
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165DON’T “TWIST HER TAIL” Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 9, 4 December 1931, Page 3
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