mulesing

Mulesing is a bloody business and the wound will take 3-5 weeks to heal.

Mulesing is performed to save labour costs and is an economic decision.

Mulesing is the mutilation of sheep in an attempt to avoid fly strike.

Mulesing is an animal husbandry procedure that has currently faced much opposition throughout its practice.

The farmer's solution to this is the painful cutting away of the flesh around the tail (called mulesing).

Some animal rights activists consider unanesthetised mulesing to be inhumane and unnecessary.

In fact, mulesing does not guarantee freedom from fly-strike yet it can leave the lambs susceptible to other problems.

Mulesing can also go wrong and lead to infection in the tail joints as well as twisted tails.

At the time mulesing was invented, crutching was done with blade shears.

"Everybody wants mulesing phased out, nobody wants to hurt the sheep," Brunson said.

Mulesing is being phased out in New Zealand.

Mulesing removes strips of skin around the tail to prevent the fly-strike disease, Myiasis.

Mulesing is a common practice in Australia for this purpose, particularly on highly wrinkled Merino sheep.

Mulesing is the removal of skin to provide permanent resistance to breech strike in Merino sheep.

Mulesing is a controversial practice.

Animal rights campaigners also claim mulesing would be unnecessary with improved animal husbandry.

In order to avoid mulesing, sheep that produce Icebreaker merino may be treated through medicines and chemicals for the disease.

Mulesing is different from crutching.

In July Australian sheep farmers began to separate out wool at auctions that had been produced without using mulesing.

Mulesing is named after John WH Mules, who developed the practice.

Originally, mulesing was carried out on sheep after they were weaned because it was considered "too rough" for lambs.

Mulesing is as effective as breeding sheep for less wrinkle (score 2) which are resistant to flystrike.

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He says of Mulesing: "It is similar to flaying and the pain will be experienced for weeks and months afterwards.

Mulesing is considered by some to be a skilled surgical task although it may be performed by unskilled persons.