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Pig choke; a bar of wood tapered at each end and with a hole in the centre. Used at Ballard's Farm [Edington] to administer worming tablets to pigs.
This pig chokes consists of a bar of wood tapered at each end and with a hole in the centre. They are chewed at the centre by pig's teeth. These chokes or gags were used at Ballard's Farm [Edington] to administer worming tablets to pigs. The pig's mouth was kept open by forcing the choke across the jaws and then the capsule was put through the hole into the back of the pig's throat.

1 pig choke: wood; good condition- used

Choke, pig, Gag, pig