The vast majority of sheep undergo the painful mutilations of having their tails cut off (tail docking) and castration. While not widely practiced in the United States, extreme but less common ...

Cutting a portion of the sheep’s tail is called tail docking. It is an animal husbandry practice done for health, welfare and management reasons. In breeding females it eases mating just as D ...

Tail Docking Historically, tail docking has been performed on pigs, sheep, dairy cattle, and cattle reared on feedlots with slatted floors. It is being phased out in the US dairy industry. In cattle ...

Sheep farmers are facing the end of ringing young lambs without ... Meanwhile, the committee recommends that ‘tail docking should only be permitted where there is a high risk of flystrike and on lambs ...

This is not just a UK issue. Denmark and Sweden - albeit with smaller sheep populations - only permit castration to be performed by a vet using local anaesthesia. Tail docking is banned in Finland, ...