Abstract: An applicator for attachment of ear tags to animals. The device incorporates a slotted base to which is affixed, at 90.degree., an elongate guide. A first handle extends from that end of the base opposite the slotted portion thereof and a second handle is pivoted to move from an open to a closed position in a plane through the first handle normal to the plane of the base. A tag carrying spear is movable from a rest position adjacent the guide member and normal to the plane of the base through a path of travel including a first downstroke in a direction normal to the base. At the end of the downstroke the tag anchor portion is wholly through the ear of an animal, which ear is retained adjacent the base during a tagging operation. The spear may then pivot through an arc through the slotted base while being withdrawn from the tagged ear.

Abstract: A device for raising sheep from a standing position to a higher inverted or semi-inverted position for performance of operations such as crutching or mulesing. The device comprises an upright race shaped portion having a pair of fixed sides and front and rear gates. The rear gate is openable to admit a sheep to the device whereafter it is closed. A member disposed on or adjacent the floor of the race has a bar located so that the front feet of the standing animal are forward and the rear feet behind this bar. This bar is attached to the rear gate and the rear gate is levered in a forward arc to cradle the rear of the animal and the bar lifted at the same time to raise the animal and to invert it to a prone position with its back cradle by the rotated rear gate, the animal being held to the gate by the raised bar.