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Diuretic said:
The savagery is astounding. Next it will be "damn you," and before we know it we'll be "castigated" (makes my eyes water just thinking about that one, knife or little green rubber band, dunno what's worse but I don't want to be castigated like our Merino lambs are, I may have to contact PETA).
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We use the rubber bands to weather the goats....
 
Damocles said:
We use the rubber bands to weather the goats....
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I don't know if it's better to use them or just castrate the lamb when it's tailed. I think I prefer the little green bands, the nuts just drop off but there's still a common practice of knife castration when tailing the lambs. Actually having merinos in this country with the bloody flies is ridiculous. The farmers, graziers, pastoralists, they have to put a lot of work and resources into maintenance of the animals, particularly as they've been bred to develop larger folds than the original merinos from Spain and the Great Karoo so that they'd yield more wool. English breeds tend not to get flystrike so bad but merinos get it bloody awful if they haven't been mulesed or dipped on time.
 
LadyT said:
oy vey more FP drama.

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It is amusing isnt it? I need to get much, much more serious about my nameless, faceless adversaries on the internets. To think I haven't gotten to the point of truly becoming consumed by this shows that I'm a chump.
 
Diuretic said:
I don't know if it's better to use them or just castrate the lamb when it's tailed. I think I prefer the little green bands, the nuts just drop off but there's still a common practice of knife castration when tailing the lambs. Actually having merinos in this country with the bloody flies is ridiculous. The farmers, graziers, pastoralists, they have to put a lot of work and resources into maintenance of the animals, particularly as they've been bred to develop larger folds than the original merinos from Spain and the Great Karoo so that they'd yield more wool. English breeds tend not to get flystrike so bad but merinos get it bloody awful if they haven't been mulesed or dipped on time.
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It seems so much kinder and there is less associated health problems using banding rather than cutting. Of course "kind" is relative....

Flystrike isn't very prevalent in our area, more often in the North of the state than where I live.
 
I just love how this thread progressed into the best way to castrate a farm animal.

This thread is historic.
 
Damocles said:
It seems so much kinder and there is less associated health problems using banding rather than cutting. Of course "kind" is relative....

Flystrike isn't very prevalent in our area, more often in the North of the state than where I live.
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I think I'd agree with the rubber band thing, definitely less traumatic.
 
OK, i haven't the time to read all five pages of this stuff but i'm assuming that we've all agreed to castrate Dano, although the method of ball bag lossage is still up for debate. Am i anywhere near close?
 
charver said:
OK, i haven't the time to read all five pages of this stuff but i'm assuming that we've all agreed to castrate Dano, although the method of ball bag lossage is still up for debate. Am i anywhere near close?
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Well a couple of us were concerned that he not get flystrike. Have to haul him up in the mulesing cradle and scrap the skin around his arse so when it heals up all the wrinkles have disappeared under scar tissue.

Now my eyes really are watering :D
 
charver said:
OK, i haven't the time to read all five pages of this stuff but i'm assuming that we've all agreed to castrate Dano, although the method of ball bag lossage is still up for debate. Am i anywhere near close?
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LMAO @ Charver........:p
 
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