Posted by Old Harv on April 22, 2013 at 06:43:56 from (184.151.114.168):
In Reply to: Lamb castrating? posted by jon f mn on April 21, 2013 at 20:27:19:
I have been using rubber bands to castrate and dock tails on lambs for 15 years. In that time I have lost two or three to infection in the tails and zero from castrating. I dock and castrate about 500 lambs per year. The infection in the tails happened when the temperature was about 80 degrees or higher. Worrying about a sheep in pain is stupid seeing as a sheep has about 2 brain cells, and those brain cells are scared of each other. Sheep endure incredible amounts of pain. If a horse gets a 2 inch scratch from barb wire it acts in a lot of pain, but I have seen sheep with maggots in their feet and wool eating them alive, and the sheep keeps eating as if nothing was wrong. No brain, no pain. Sure, when you put a ring on a sheep it acts like it is dying for a few minutes. Ever castrated a pig? They scream non stop for about 5 minutes without breathing in and then sit their newly cut behind down in the manure with their back legs spread out and run with their front legs, getting as much salty manure into the cut as possible, and they live to. No one ever promised me a pain free existence, I don't see why my animals should expect a pain free existence.
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