Management Practices

Debeaking

Poultry To prevent chickens from hurting

each other.Pecking order

Before

After

Tail Docking

Sheep, swine Removing the tail keeps the animal

cleaner and healthier.Elastrator band

Dehorning

Removal of horns from cattle, sheep, goats.

Animals are less likely to hurt humans or each other.

Disbudding- removal of horn-producing cells in calves less than 2 months of age.

Dehorning- cutting out horns and horn-producing tissue after they have attached.

Best Methods-- Disbudding

Bloodless and less painful. Should be done to young calves

before they reach 8 weeks old. Caustic paste disbudding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KcieP5H-E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1KcieP5H-E

Other Methods

These methods are not as practical because they can cause more pain and blood-loss for the animal. Tube/cup/spoon Barnes dehorner Keystone “guillotine” dehorner Obstetrical/Embryotomy wire dehorning Hand saw

Castration

Performed at early age: To prevent problems associated

with male animals fighting for dominance

To improve quality of meat Prevent unwanted breeding

Castration

Banding- band is placed around the scrotum to prevent flow of blood; eventually falls off.

Castration

Emasculator- crushes and cuts the spermatic cord, while preventing it from hemorrhaging and causing the animal to bleed too much.

Castration

Swine Several different techniques Procedure done by making incision on

underside of pig and removing the testicles.

Horses Open the scrotum with a scalpel and

then remove the testicles with an emasculator.

Branding

Hot iron branding A method of permanent identification

that uses an iron that is heated electrically or by fire to burn a brand into the hair follicles, resulting in a permanent hair loss in that area.

Branding

Freeze branding Form of identification that uses a chilled

frozen instrument to mark a horse’s hair of skin.

Frozen nitrogen is the common substance used to chill irons before use.

Hair that grows back where the brand was applied has no pigment, resulting in a white brand.

Hot Iron vs. Freeze Branding

Ear Notching

Used mostly for pigs.

Terms

Debeaking Pecking order Docking Dehorning Disbudding Polled Horned

CastrationBandingEmasculatorElastrator bandEar notchingbranding

Quiz

Write down everything you remember about the following terms from today’s lesson: Debeaking Tail docking Dehorning Castration Branding

Assignment for tomorrow!

Create a study guide based on previous lectures.

Use Ms. Meadors and Mr. Mathis’s lesson notes.

Study for upcoming test.