MULESING
Mulesing is the act of cutting off extra skin around the bottom of a sheep. It is completed by many sheep farmers in Australia in order to lower the chance of their sheep getting fly struck. When a sheep gets fly struck it means that they have had flies lay eggs around their bottom because it was not clean. The maggots then hatch from the eggs and eat the sheep from inside to out.
Many people believe that the act of mulesing is barbaric, animal cruelty and should be banned across Australia. This is because mulesing causes an extreme amount of pain to the sheep, mulesing is ineffective, there are many other humane ways to help prevent flystrike, it is out of fashion and tied to past times.
The act of mulesing is often done without …show more content…
Mulesing is one of the most ineffective processes because after it has been completed and before the flesh has healed, lambs have a higher chance of getting flystrike than before they were mulesed. This is because the flies are more attracted to the unhealed, open wound than they are to the rolls of skin. In one investigation many sheep were found to have died of flystrike even though they had been …show more content…
One of the most obvious ways to lower the chance of sheep getting fly struck without mulesing is to breed sheep with less skin around their bottoms so that you don’t have to cut it off. Not only would this save all the farmers time, but it would also save them money because they would no longer have to pay people to help them with mulesing. Experts on the matter have stated that it is able to breed an almost flystrike resistant flock of sheep within two years. This means that within two years one farm could easily transform into a cheaper, more efficient farm with no animal cruelty anywhere. As well as breeding flystrike resistant sheep there are also chemicals that can be poured on to the sheep after shearing to lower chances of them getting flystrike. Shearing or crutching (shearing around the area of the bottom) sheep regularly and checking for signs of flystrike are also easy and humane ways to try and stop flystrike.
There are many clothing companies that have now pledged to use non mulesed wool and there are also many about to follow on. Some of these companies include H&M, Perry Ellis, HUGO BOSS, Adidas and many others. Upon seeing this it would be believed that many farmers around the country would make the smart decision to move away from mulesing because of how many major clients they are loosing just because of a
Mulesing is the act of cutting off extra skin around the bottom of a sheep. It is completed by many sheep farmers in Australia in order to lower the chance of their sheep getting fly struck. When a sheep gets fly struck it means that they have had flies lay eggs around their bottom because it was not clean. The maggots then hatch from the eggs and eat the sheep from inside to out.
Many people believe that the act of mulesing is barbaric, animal cruelty and should be banned across Australia. This is because mulesing causes an extreme amount of pain to the sheep, mulesing is ineffective, there are many other humane ways to help prevent flystrike, it is out of fashion and tied to past times.
The act of mulesing is often done without …show more content…
Mulesing is one of the most ineffective processes because after it has been completed and before the flesh has healed, lambs have a higher chance of getting flystrike than before they were mulesed. This is because the flies are more attracted to the unhealed, open wound than they are to the rolls of skin. In one investigation many sheep were found to have died of flystrike even though they had been …show more content…
One of the most obvious ways to lower the chance of sheep getting fly struck without mulesing is to breed sheep with less skin around their bottoms so that you don’t have to cut it off. Not only would this save all the farmers time, but it would also save them money because they would no longer have to pay people to help them with mulesing. Experts on the matter have stated that it is able to breed an almost flystrike resistant flock of sheep within two years. This means that within two years one farm could easily transform into a cheaper, more efficient farm with no animal cruelty anywhere. As well as breeding flystrike resistant sheep there are also chemicals that can be poured on to the sheep after shearing to lower chances of them getting flystrike. Shearing or crutching (shearing around the area of the bottom) sheep regularly and checking for signs of flystrike are also easy and humane ways to try and stop flystrike.
There are many clothing companies that have now pledged to use non mulesed wool and there are also many about to follow on. Some of these companies include H&M, Perry Ellis, HUGO BOSS, Adidas and many others. Upon seeing this it would be believed that many farmers around the country would make the smart decision to move away from mulesing because of how many major clients they are loosing just because of a