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Why would they go through four times as much pain?? Makes no sense,... and i dont believe you.
Pay attention to your herd and you wont have such a parasite problem that you have to torture a LIVING/FEELING animal.......
Lets think.... how DOES it feel to have your SKIN shaved off?? Nice??
Or are sheep supposed to NOT feel pain? Just cause they are gentle KIND sheep.....
Interesting,.... how kind people will let an animal suffer and simply not care... A sheeps PAIN doesnt matter??...
oh well...
Again.. go get your butt SKIN shaved off and then come talk to me.. tell me how GOOD it feels.
From a sheepherder's point of view, it would be pretty hard to be watching out for wolves, all day, when you are busy clipping wool off a sheep's butt....I believe it's an attitude of One and done.
We have 10 thousand sheep and we breed them for ginetics. we sell the rams to client to breed with thier own flock. if a average sheep is worth 250 + then you would want to do all you can to keep them healthy and free of parasites and problems.
parasites and problems include mulesing. when a bly or blow fly lays its larvae on a wet moist sheeps skin/wool the larvea turns into a maggot that will painfully burrow into the skin and eat the flesh untill it takes over at least half the skin of the sheep and kill it.
so with mulesing it makes the life of sheep famers and the sheep it self a lot easier.
that awnsers the first question.
the cost of treating this problem is not cheap. with the main effective product costing $900 per 30 litres but it lasts for around 10 weeks depending on rain.
we often have to bring sheep in once a week to check and to treat the fly blown sheep which involves taking them to the shearing shed and shearing off the affected areas wool and treating the wound before releasing it back to the mob. if we didnt do this we wouldnt have as many sheep as they would either die of being fly blown with out treatment or preditation whilst being fly blown.
we also live near a busy road and with dead sheep every where than that would not make us look good and maybe the authorities amy come in
so is it worth it. the three to two hours of i must admit pain. or a whole life of pain.
i would and would willingly get my but shaven if it menat life and death. wouldnt you?
or would you prefer to live a short life of pain when it could be easily avoided.
and we do care whilst we have them we vaccinated them for diseases and give them antiiotics for the open wound. if we didnt care . whats the point of having sheep? why have sheep and not care when a lot of care, work and husbandary is reqired. if you dont care sell the sheep and get another job
