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I don't hate a lot of people...

dug777

dug777

Lifer
It's always people with little or no connection to the farming community, who wouldn't know (and certainly aren't prepared to accept) the reality of the situation.

Mulesing is nasty work, and no farmer appreciates having to do it, but a few days later the sheep are just as happy and content (or certainly appear to be) as they were before hand, and they are vastly less likely to suffer the agonising death by flystrike...

And there's currently no economically viable alternative.

I guess my second point would be that if they can be bothered getting this worked up about sheep, imagine the (constructive) good they could have done working to raise awareness/funds for a real problem, like malaria or AIDS 🙁
 
may i have a clue please?

i grew up on a farm, but it was an american farm and not an australean farm

does this have to do with chopping off sheeps tails?
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
may i have a clue please?

i grew up on a farm, but it was an american farm and not an australean farm

does this have to do with chopping off sheeps tails?
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not really, more the loose skin around their butts where the flies like to lay their eggs...
 
ok, so what do you do about that skin? do you burn it off? cut it off? what do the city folks object to you doing about this butt skin?
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
ok, so what do you do about that skin? do you burn it off? cut it off? what do the city folks object to you doing about this butt skin?
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cutting it off without anasthetic...
 
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: FoBoT
ok, so what do you do about that skin? do you burn it off? cut it off? what do the city folks object to you doing about this butt skin?
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cutting it off without anasthetic...
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And what is the result of that? An open wound prone to infection or... ?
 
Mulesing is Aussie lingo for buggering sheep. They all do it over there, it's just accepted...
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: FoBoT
ok, so what do you do about that skin? do you burn it off? cut it off? what do the city folks object to you doing about this butt skin?
Click to expand...

cutting it off without anasthetic...
Click to expand...

And what is the result of that? An open wound prone to infection or... ?
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nothing- sheep doesnt get flystrike.

but it hurts the animal while they do it 🙁 or something...
 
sheep don't really have feelings. they're the dumbest, dirtiest animals on the planet.
 
ok, so it isn't much different than what we do here, cutting off the sheep tail or castrating sheep/pigs/cattle

and no ,they don't get infected, you do the work, smear a bunch of iodine on it and send them on their way. animals live in dirt all the time, so they aren't as prone to infection as people living in glass houses

sounds ok to me, keep on chopping off that extra skin from your sheep's butts
 
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: FoBoT
ok, so what do you do about that skin? do you burn it off? cut it off? what do the city folks object to you doing about this butt skin?
Click to expand...

cutting it off without anasthetic...
Click to expand...

And what is the result of that? An open wound prone to infection or... ?
Click to expand...

nothing- sheep doesnt get flystrike.

but it hurts the animal while they do it 🙁 or something...
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So removing skin doesn't leave an open wound? 😕
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: FoBoT
ok, so what do you do about that skin? do you burn it off? cut it off? what do the city folks object to you doing about this butt skin?
Click to expand...

cutting it off without anasthetic...
Click to expand...

And what is the result of that? An open wound prone to infection or... ?
Click to expand...

nothing- sheep doesnt get flystrike.

but it hurts the animal while they do it 🙁 or something...
Click to expand...

So removing skin doesn't leave an open wound? 😕
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check Fobot's post above 😉

it's a temporary pain versus an agonising death by flystrike 😕
 
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: FoBoT
ok, so what do you do about that skin? do you burn it off? cut it off? what do the city folks object to you doing about this butt skin?
Click to expand...

cutting it off without anasthetic...
Click to expand...

And what is the result of that? An open wound prone to infection or... ?
Click to expand...

nothing- sheep doesnt get flystrike.

but it hurts the animal while they do it 🙁 or something...
Click to expand...

So removing skin doesn't leave an open wound? 😕
Click to expand...

check Fobot's post above 😉

it's a temporary pain versus an agonising death by flystrike 😕
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I'm just curious how you remove skin without leaving an open wound. I haven't been around sheep since I was 6 or so, and then I wasn't really checking out their butts, so I don't know what this excess of skin looks like... but... it would seem to me that unless it's a callous, removing it would leave an open wound.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: dug777
Originally posted by: FoBoT
ok, so what do you do about that skin? do you burn it off? cut it off? what do the city folks object to you doing about this butt skin?
Click to expand...

cutting it off without anasthetic...
Click to expand...

And what is the result of that? An open wound prone to infection or... ?
Click to expand...

nothing- sheep doesnt get flystrike.

but it hurts the animal while they do it 🙁 or something...
Click to expand...

So removing skin doesn't leave an open wound? 😕
Click to expand...

check Fobot's post above 😉

it's a temporary pain versus an agonising death by flystrike 😕
Click to expand...

I'm just curious how you remove skin without leaving an open wound. I haven't been around sheep since I was 6 or so, and then I wasn't really checking out their butts, so I don't know what this excess of skin looks like... but... it would seem to me that unless it's a callous, removing it would leave an open wound.
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http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/agency/pubns/farmnote/1996/f04696.pdf

has all the info, plus links...
 
so did this actually get banned or something. You really need to expand on your story.
 
it doesn't matter if isn't an open wound, you just put iodine on it and it heals up
animals used to not have veternarians to take care of them and they lived just fine for bizzilions of years
 
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