Mike Rowe and Castrating Lambs

[Dave (imported)]

reindeer castration video

bite them off

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2185682120

That's not the way the sheep farmer showed Mike Rowe how to do it. Not only that, I think the entire video is a fake. The idea is not to infect the animal with the germs in your mouth but to create a "steer" that gets fatter and juicier to eat a few months down the road.

The reason they use their teeth is that lamb testicles are small and slippery little suckers... like small grapes if you really want to know.

First off, The outer skin and fur is tougher than human teeth. So don't be a jerk.

Second, The method is to take sharp knife and open the bottom of the scrotum.

Third, the castrator squeezes the testicles out of the sack and since they are holding the animal's legs in both hands so they aren't kicked in the face with teeth falling out and eye loss, they grip the testicles with their teeth and yank backwards because they don't have free hands. If there are two people performing the castration, then the castrator can use a knife.

FOURTH, YA blithering dummies, ANIMAL CORDS ARE FRAGILE, MUCH MORE SO THAN HUMAN CORDS AND THEY BREAK EASILY.

FIFTH, the animals are given an antibiotic shot and smeared with something that congeals the blood. Think styptic pencil.

Human testicles and cords are much more robust than these weeks old lambs. Don't try this at home even if you can suck your own balls into your mouth.

Sorry to sound a little pissed off and/or silly about this... I didn't expect this post to be this controversial except over animal cruelty. And I'm not taking sides in that argument because I've never castrated farm animals. But I have been butted by baby goats, gassed by cows and just missed getting shit on by a horse.

You know, I remember some of my less brilliant fraternity brothers who bought one of the "little sisters" an 18 pound pig as a joke gift. They thought they called her something nasty until the pig shit everywhere and a week later, she slaughtered the pig and her family ate him and his leftovers for two or three days.

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

i think this is just idle conversation

i dont think anyone would really try it

[A-1 (imported)]

i think this is just idle conversation

i dont think anyone would really try it

I wouldn't bet my balls on that if I were you, that is, if you still have them...

Actually, I penned a story here with this theme...CLICK HERE! (http://www.eunuch.org/Alpha/O/ea_231703oral_nul.htm) ...But it was based on a true story off of the news wire...

...now you know the REST of the STORY... with apologies to Paul Harvey, recently deceased...

[coinflipper_21 (imported)]

Actually, they crush the cords using their teeth. It works just like a Burdizzo, without the expense of the modern mechanical device. Personally, I prefer elastrators on lambs. I have had no call to castrate a reindeer....

Read the story Flying Finns (True story) in the Archive to find out how I heard about this.

[sag111 (imported)]

its not inhumane they are not human thats why we call them sheep.

[Francis (imported)]

This technique of removing lamb testicles was not uncommon and from my experience with farmers in Colorado - Greek imigrants -their technique involved slicing the sac and then sucking the testicles out but I was never sure whether they just severed the cords with their teeth or whether they used the tight grip of their teeth to just pull on the cords until they parted from the body of the animal. I think the latter was the more likely option since this is supposed to result in less bleeding.

Castrated lambs do not bleed as much as a human being would from my youthfull observations. Some farmers in our area just used a sharp pocket knife to slice the sac and sever the cords as well as to remove the tail. There was a lot of blood which quickly subsided but few lambs died.

In terms of castration of a man by biting, there was a case in the former Yugoslavia where one prisoner was forced by the guards to castrate another man with his teeth in one of their prison camps. The victim died in less that 24 hours !!! The "cutter" was seriously traumatised and I suspect never got over the guilt.

For lambs the elastrators work very well both on the balls and the tail and seem to cause little trauma. I think that animals in general are much more resistant to infections than humans and in particular they so not get gangrene so using animals as a point of reference for your own activities is verrry risky with what ever the technique you are considering. Stay close to reasonable medical services just in case it doesn't work the way you thought it might. Otherwise good luck and share the pictures.

[chilliwilli (imported)]

its not inhumane they are not human thats why we call them sheep.

Well the jury has reached a decision.

Sheep spread eagle castrtated effeciently using teeth with minimal pain "not guilty".

Sag butt naked, blood on his face wrestling sheep in the middle of the pastuer, sanity established "guilty as charged"!

chilli-

[IbPervert (imported)]

that was a cool episode...we did chat about it when it first came out.

[A-1 (imported)]

its not inhumane they are not human thats why we call them sheep.

Hmmm!

The last time that I saw Sheep's post his avatar looked pretty human to me...

:-\

[devi (imported)]

The way that I had seen it done is that the lamb or other animal is held down on a make-shift table by a couple of guys, so no room to wiggle here. I think they did wipe the area using a lime solution. (The kind of lime you use for cement, stucco, cleaning and so forth. Then it is pierced between the balls with a disinfected and honed (extremely sharp) knife. The incision is not much. Maybe only an inch long. The cutter squeezes one ball out and into his mouth and by using his teeth severs the cord and with his toungue pushes the severed cord back in. Then he spits out the testicle into a bowl and proceeds with the next one. This is after their tails have been lopped off and cauterized.

As far as being humane is concerned, I see it like this: To leave a herd unattended to and left to go "wild" would be by far, away, and beyond the very worst inhumane thing you could ever do. I am not exaggerating when I say that 99% percent of those animals would be gone within a week of being unattended to. And there would be every kind of horrible death and suffering inflicted on them by all kinds of predators imaginable. They would be caught in fences, trees, rocks, muck holes, sand and God knows what else. They might even be fighting amongst themselves while vicious dogs are looking on. Those things really ARE born looking for a place to die. This is from my experience.