Mulesing Mutilation on Lambs
- Mulesing is practiced primarily on merino lambs
- Involves the stripping away of large areas of skin and flesh from sheep’s hindquarters so as to prevent the growth of wool
- Performed as a preventive measure against a painful condition called “flystrike,” (occurs when the eggs of blowflies laid in woolly areas of sheep’s skin hatch into maggots, leading to infestation and, eventually, death by ammonia poisoning.)
- There are many humane flystrike prevention alternatives
- Mulesing is highly abusive, causing both acute and chronic pain
- During mulesing, lambs are thrown onto their backs and their legs are restrained while the skin and wool around their backsides is carved away with metal shears to expose the flesh.
- At the same time, their tails are often cut off.
- The procedure is essentially skinning the animals alive without anesthetics
- Bloody wounds have been found to remain unhealed for 22 to 30 days
- Has been estimated that approximately 60 to 80 percent of merino sheep are subjected to mulesing in Australia
- Statistics that suggest that at any given time, Australia contains about 82 million molested sheep
- Solution to Problem: Banning Mulesing
- Mulesing is practiced primarily on merino lambs
- Involves the stripping away of large areas of skin and flesh from sheep’s hindquarters so as to prevent the growth of wool
- Performed as a preventive measure against a painful condition called “flystrike,” (occurs when the eggs of blowflies laid in woolly areas of sheep’s skin hatch into maggots, leading to infestation and, eventually, death by ammonia poisoning.)
- There are many humane flystrike prevention alternatives
- Mulesing is highly abusive, causing both acute and chronic pain
- During mulesing, lambs are thrown onto their backs and their legs are restrained while the skin and wool around their backsides is carved away with metal shears to expose the flesh.
- At the same time, their tails are often cut off.
- The procedure is essentially skinning the animals alive without anesthetics
- Bloody wounds have been found to remain unhealed for 22 to 30 days
- Has been estimated that approximately 60 to 80 percent of merino sheep are subjected to mulesing in Australia
- Statistics that suggest that at any given time, Australia contains about 82 million molested sheep
- Solution to Problem: Banning Mulesing
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