Summary of pain relief use
Meat & Livestock Australia November 24, 2020
- Assess if mulesing and/or castration needs to occur.
- If sheep need mulesing, and this occurs at lamb marking with tail docking and castration, then the optimal approach would be to pre-operatively treat all lambs with Buccalgesic, use a hot iron for tail docking, apply a ring to castrate male lambs with Numnuts (NumOcaine) and apply Tri-Solfen to the mulesing wound. If this system is not suitable, then alternatives are provided in the pain relief table (see below).
- If sheep only require tail docking and castration, the optimum approach would be to pre-operatively treat all lambs with Buccalgesic, use a hot iron for tail docking, and apply a ring to castrate male lambs with Numnuts (NumOcaine). Alternatives are provided in the pain relief table.
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