1. Management Practices

2. Debeaking Poultry To prevent chickens from hurting each other.
Pecking order
Before
After 

3. Tail Docking Sheep, swine
Removing the tail keeps the animal cleaner and healthier.
Elastrator band

4. Dehorning Removal of horns from cattle, sheep, goats.
Animals are less likely to hurt humans or each other.
Disbudding- removal of horn-producing cells in calves less than 2 months of age.
Dehorning- cutting out horns and horn-producing tissue after they have attached.

5. Best Methods-- Disbudding
Best Methods-- Disbudding
Bloodless and less painful.
Should be done to young calves before they reach 8 weeks old.
Caustic paste disbudding

6. Other Methods
These methods are not as practical because they can cause more pain and blood-loss for the animal.
Tube/cup/spoon
Barnes dehorner
Keystone “guillotine” dehorner
Obstetrical/Embryotomy wire dehorning
Hand saw

7. Castration Performed at early age:
To prevent problems associated with male animals fighting for dominance
To improve quality of meat
Prevent unwanted breeding

8. Castration
Banding- band is placed around the scrotum to prevent flow of blood; eventually falls off.

9. Castration
Emasculator- crushes and cuts the spermatic cord, while preventing it from hemorrhaging and causing the animal to bleed too much.

10. Castration Swine Horses Several different techniques
Procedure done by making incision on underside of pig and removing the testicles.
Horses
Open the scrotum with a scalpel and then remove the testicles with an emasculator.

11. Branding Hot iron branding
A method of permanent identification that uses an iron that is heated electrically or by fire to burn a brand into the hair follicles, resulting in a permanent hair loss in that area.

12. Branding Freeze branding
Form of identification that uses a chilled frozen instrument to mark a horse’s hair of skin.
Frozen nitrogen is the common substance used to chill irons before use.
Hair that grows back where the brand was applied has no pigment, resulting in a white brand.

13. Hot Iron vs. Freeze Branding

14. Ear Notching
Used mostly for pigs.

15. Terms Debeaking Castration Pecking order Banding Docking Emasculator
Dehorning
Disbudding
Polled
Horned
Castration
Banding
Emasculator
Elastrator band
Ear notching
branding

16. Quiz
Write down everything you remember about the following terms from today’s lesson:
Debeaking
Tail docking
Dehorning
Castration
Branding

17. Assignment for tomorrow!
Create a study guide based on previous lectures.
Use Ms. Meadors and Mr. Mathis’s lesson notes.
Study for upcoming test.