Now What!
We marked the poddies today, always seems like we are betraying their trust, but they are very stoic and forgiving. We have refined our methods, having tried everything over the years.
We vaccinate with Gudair, then 6-1 with B12 and Selenium. Follow this with a scabiguard vaccine. Then a numbered PIC tag, a brass stud tag, and finally a de-tailing. We used a gas knife, as this has proved less painful to the lamb than a rubber ring, (we swab the area with a fly repellant). We like to mark lambs as young as possible, and have found the cradle pictured as the best for a mixture of lamb sizes. We still use a rubber ring on the testicles, the suffering seems fairly short lived.
We vaccinate with Gudair, then 6-1 with B12 and Selenium. Follow this with a scabiguard vaccine. Then a numbered PIC tag, a brass stud tag, and finally a de-tailing. We used a gas knife, as this has proved less painful to the lamb than a rubber ring, (we swab the area with a fly repellant). We like to mark lambs as young as possible, and have found the cradle pictured as the best for a mixture of lamb sizes. We still use a rubber ring on the testicles, the suffering seems fairly short lived.
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