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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 619709" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>Our welfare code here allows for phenobarb and other similar euthanasiates (but these are only allowed to be purchases and administered by a vet), bullet or captive bolt, both of which require licenses but allow farmers to euthanase their own stock. Cutting a calf's throat is not acceptable under our welfare code because bovines have two supplies of blood to the brain, one in the throat where you would make the cut, the other running up the spine. So when you cut their throats they linger for a long time. Unlike sheep that only have the one blood supply in the throat, and so when they are done it is a quick death. Goats are the same as cattle. </p><p></p><p>Newborn piglets are allowed to be euthanased by blunt trauma to the head, but not many other livestock are (I'm just pulling these out from memory). </p><p></p><p>I know other methods frequently used are cutting throats and suffocation (for calves only, obviously), overdose of Rompun (goats and sheep), and quick administration of ketosis solution by IV. These arent condoned in the welfare code but sometimes you do what you have to do the only way you are able to do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 619709, member: 3195"] Our welfare code here allows for phenobarb and other similar euthanasiates (but these are only allowed to be purchases and administered by a vet), bullet or captive bolt, both of which require licenses but allow farmers to euthanase their own stock. Cutting a calf's throat is not acceptable under our welfare code because bovines have two supplies of blood to the brain, one in the throat where you would make the cut, the other running up the spine. So when you cut their throats they linger for a long time. Unlike sheep that only have the one blood supply in the throat, and so when they are done it is a quick death. Goats are the same as cattle. Newborn piglets are allowed to be euthanased by blunt trauma to the head, but not many other livestock are (I'm just pulling these out from memory). I know other methods frequently used are cutting throats and suffocation (for calves only, obviously), overdose of Rompun (goats and sheep), and quick administration of ketosis solution by IV. These arent condoned in the welfare code but sometimes you do what you have to do the only way you are able to do it. [/QUOTE]
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