09-17-2019, 10:35 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Posts: 6,507
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Originally Posted by britroc
ooooh poor ol' hoss !
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Judging by its size (it's a roughly fountain pen-size device, with batteries sealed inside its plastic case; the folded-wire heating element protrudes about half an inch or less [the one I ordered with my Rapier motors is stored away at the moment]), I think it's used on rams and/or billy goats.
Gelding of horses is done with a crimping device that is applied to the spermatic cord (as well as removing the testicles), which is not always done--even today--under anesthesia, instead using only sedation and a lip twitch for restraint, with the horse standing. (Only the English-speaking world seems to have a "stallion behavior problem." In France, Germany, and other countries, stallions aren't kept in isolation except when bred; they are ridden and driven, and they also pull farm implements [including with geldings and mares, sometimes even when the latter are in season], instead of living alone--it's no wonder that those secluded stallions are so poorly socialized. People in the English-speaking world, assuming that "stallions have one-track minds," keep them in a manner which ensures that they will become that way.) |