Equipment Used for Castration and Testectomy in Food Animals

This informative content illustrates various equipment used for castration and testectomy in food animals. It includes tools like scalpel, castration knife, emasculator, and emasculatome, each serving different purposes in the procedure. The use of these tools ensures efficient and bloodless castration, preventing infection and promoting animal welfare. Elastration equipment is also discussed, offering a method for restricting blood supply to achieve scrotal and testicular atrophy in young and older animals.

• Castration
• Testectomy
• Emasculator
• Elastration equipment
• Livestock

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1. Equipment used for Castration of Food Animals

2. Equipment used for TESTECTOMY 1.) Scalpel or Castration Knife No.12 Bard Parker blade is often preferred and used for Testectomy in cattle

3. 2.) New Berry Castration Knife Used to make incisions in the scrotom of young bulls Technique: Close knife and pull downward to slice scrotom

4. 3.) Emasculator - Used to simultaneously crush and cut the spermatic cord Prevents hemorrhage Blade is located on the side of the tool held in place of a nut Placed against the testicle in a nut to nut way to allow crushing or the spermatic artery Can be locked in place using the ratchet to allow hemostasis - - - -

5. Use of the Emasculatome - - - Used for Bloodless castration Eliminates the potential for infection Commonly used on young bulls and rams (immature males) NOT recommended for use on boars. - - Crushes the vasculature of the spermatic cord to result in avascular necrosis and atrophy of the testicle

6. Equipment used for Elastration Elastrator bands and Application pliers - Bands are placed at the base of the scrotum, above the testicles - Application allows restriction of blood supply to testicles and scrotom that results in scrotal and testicular atrophy - Bands should be replaced often to prevent deterioration and loss of elasticity - Used for young lambs and calves less than 2 weeks old as well as older bulls and ram lambs