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  • #2
    iverjohnston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭iverjohnston


    I had a lunatic of a Fr/Lim cross, whom I was afraid to castrate (squeeze) myself. I called in to the vets, and asked them to do it. I suggested they bring their immobilizer with them, for safety's sake. I was told in no uncertan terms that they did not use such a thing, and that it is in fact, illegal,as it was inhumane. Anyway, he wasn't done at the time, and very soon created a much bigger problem. I see them for sale on german ebay, however. From a South African source. Iver in Cavan


  • #3
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Electro-immobilisation was made illegal here in Ireland in 2007:
    S.I. No. 197/2007 — Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes (Electro-Immobilisation) Regulations 2007.

    To the best of my knowledge, this legislation is still in force.


  • #4
    towzer2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 533 ✭✭✭towzer2010


    About 10 years ago our vet used it to dehorn the weanlings.

    It was ok while he was doing them because they were frozen with the electric charge going through them but they went absolutely mental when they were released. They went through hedges, wire, across drains and walls. One of them ended up nearly a mile away and another one ended up in the middle of a slurry lagoon in a neighbours yard about half a mile away after crossing four fences and jumping a 6 foot wall.

    Obviously they were always really nervous after that, even though most of them were fine before hand. It is a good job that it was banned and even it it wasnt I'd never let anyone use it on my farm. Horrible yoke.


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