Summary of pain relief use

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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