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Calling All Sheep Farmers. Castration/docking Method Do You Use?
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So... just out of curiosity, what method do you use for sheep castration?
Elastication or Surgical? And what are your reasons for the method you use. Also...for your methods used do you give pain relief while doing so?
Elastication or Surgical? And what are your reasons for the method you use. Also...for your methods used do you give pain relief while doing so?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Everyone I have ever known breeding sheep put a rubber ring around the male lambs Testicles around three days after they are born. They eventually drop off. What a strange question.
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I dont know what other farmers done but I was taught to do both at the same time, and yes the pain subsided and would be happily feeding in a very short time.
You do need to be careful to get the rubber ring behind the testicles, I have seen them misplaced and caught a testicle, that is very painful indeed and they are not easily or quickly removed again. I used to keep a scalpel nearby just in case it happened, thankfully it never did. I hasten to add that the scalpel was to cut off the ring!
You do need to be careful to get the rubber ring behind the testicles, I have seen them misplaced and caught a testicle, that is very painful indeed and they are not easily or quickly removed again. I used to keep a scalpel nearby just in case it happened, thankfully it never did. I hasten to add that the scalpel was to cut off the ring!
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