Fair enough but even the best shearer in the world can have a wee slip up. The OP is trying to be sensible in being prepared for all eventualities. Not much fun stuck out at a set of sheep pens on a hill holding you finger over a bleeding milk vein on a sticky bellied ewe with only the bag needle and baler twine available.Get a proper half moon stitching needle from your vet and a roll of stitching gut. Keep it in your shearing bag and hopefully you’ll rarely need it.another shearer.
Cobwebs stuff plenty before a couple stitchI was wandering what I should put in a kit in my shearing bag for stitching up cuts?
On my course the bloke mentioned crocodile clips for milk veins but I can’t really remember the context, so any help would be great
How bout do them yourself.another shearer.
I used to shear like Edward Scissor Hands, moved the comb forward a mm more than the people who can actually shear and cuts don't happen much at all.I was wandering what I should put in a kit in my shearing bag for stitching up cuts?
On my course the bloke mentioned crocodile clips for milk veins but I can’t really remember the context, so any help would be great
I was wandering what I should put in a kit in my shearing bag for stitching up cuts?
On my course the bloke mentioned crocodile clips for milk veins but I can’t really remember the context, so any help would be great
The 6” half curved suture needle is what we’ve always used for prolapses, use the string that wool bags come with for stitching prolapses, only ever seen 1 cut on a ewe that needed stitching
APS sells skin suturing kits. Page 65 of their catalogue online
Was once shearing with a right clever sod, I pulled one out of the pen that the dog had nipped the back leg (honestly!), for the next run he kept on calling me butcher. First sheep of the last run of the day he hit the milk vain and bloody everywhere, moral is never comment until you have shorn your whole career without cutting one!another shearer.
Take them out before next year or the machine will cough a bit!Page 69 of APS catalogue. We use them for inverted eyelids in lambs, but a few staples will hold a cut closed.
“Royal” Brand disposable auto skin suture (Stapler) comes pre-loaded with approx 30-40 staples £8.95.
The 6” half curved suture needle is what we’ve always used for prolapses, use the string that wool bags come with for stitching prolapses, only ever seen 1 cut on a ewe that needed stitching![]()