Another Mystery Tool

**IanW** · 5th June 2022, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by auscab

...... is that method considered the good way to do it when you know what your doing ?

Yep. I've forgotten what the typical failure rate is with burdizzos, it's not high unless weilded by a careless operator, but you do get failures! With the "whip 'em out holus bolus" method you don't get much bleeding when the testicles are still very small & inactive, & there are techniques to minimise it, but as they get older and the blood supply much more robust it can get a bit more interesting! But DJ is quite correct - most farmers do their own castrations & elastorators are all the go for sheep, vets only get into the action for the more valuable animals like horses.

I spent very little time in practice, but I also grew up on a farm & well know how many opinions farmers have on how to do anything. There were times when I got so much advice from the client, I wondered why he bothered calling me at all....

Cheers,

**Fergiz01** · 5th June 2022, 10:50 PM

I still have strong memories of our farm class instructor castrating lambs by opening the scrotum with a knife and pulling out the testes with his teeth. The tails were then chopped off with the gas axe. Poor little buggers. Probably not as poor as the ones that had to have the job done by the students though!

**IanW** · 6th June 2022, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by Fergiz01

...... Poor little buggers. Probably not as poor as the ones that had to have the job done by the students though!...

Yeah, I often felt sorry for the creatures that "helped" us to learn as students. It's done a bit differently nowadays, they don't let students loose on real animals until they can show a bit of proficiency in the various ways used to practice a technique without risk to live animals (& they're even more cautious with human animals, fortunately

).

Biting off the cord with your teeth was a way to show your bona fides as a true bushman. Although biting the cord does help with haemostatsis (supposedly), it's a rather silly thing to do - if you've ever seen a smear of what's in the average mouth under a microscope you won't need to ask why......

Cheers,

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