Needles

Dead Rabbits

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Location
'Merica
I buy 16 gauge luer lock 1ā€ or 3/4ā€ for everything on calves and cows. For any hormones though itā€™s 18 gauge 1.5ā€.

consistently changing needles between cows consumes a lot of needles. Buy in boxes of 100.
 

Moors Lad

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Location
N Yorks
I didn't know you could get new needles, I just wash the old one and use again. When it gets blunt I run it down a stone, seems to work alright. It was 1 inch but now it's nearer half an inch. Maybe I should buy another.
Spoken like a true Scot..... or Yorkshireman......:D
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
On a similar topic, the last "single use" 10ml syringes I bought the writing wears off very easily, used once then stick in a pocket to carry home - numbers gone. Some of them used to last for years.

Had to start putting clear tape over the numbers before first use. Another added cost!
A 10ml syringe usually goes to 12ml when all the way out, half way is 6ml šŸ‘šŸ» My current syringe on my quad is over 2 years old, new one in the packet next to it incase it breaks. The staff seem to have a new one every lambing šŸ™„ šŸ˜­
 

Poorbuthappy

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
I didn't know you could get new needles, I just wash the old one and use again. When it gets blunt I run it down a stone, seems to work alright. It was 1 inch but now it's nearer half an inch. Maybe I should buy another.
An old vet at our practice used to have a needle sharpener.
 

Poorbuthappy

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Devon
I buy 16 gauge luer lock 1ā€ or 3/4ā€ for everything on calves and cows. For any hormones though itā€™s 18 gauge 1.5ā€.

consistently changing needles between cows consumes a lot of needles. Buy in boxes of 100.
Don't you be mentioning that H word on here, people will be getting excited.
 

johnspeehs

Member
Location
Co Antrim
Ā£75 keeps me in needles and syringes for a cpl of years at least, that's 3 boxes of various length and gage lurlock needles , boxes of all different sizes of syringes and few boxes of scalpel blades, well worth it. I help a neighbour inject cattle and sheep any time he has anything needing treatment and you can hear the old needles he has popping through the skin they are so blunt and he wonders why everything jumps when they get injected.
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
we have the written protocol written down, in case we lose a needle in an animal, mark with a big red circle, for 30 ? years, never ever needed to do, until last year, twice. The metal tube, came away from the plastic, bad batch ? You need a big red circle, absolute ###### to find, and extract. But can't moan, x2 in 30 odd years.
And the scale comes off the syringes to quickly.
 
Ā£75 keeps me in needles and syringes for a cpl of years at least, that's 3 boxes of various length and gage lurlock needles , boxes of all different sizes of syringes and few boxes of scalpel blades, well worth it. I help a neighbour inject cattle and sheep any time he has anything needing treatment and you can hear the old needles he has popping through the skin they are so blunt and he wonders why everything jumps when they get injected.
I know one bloke who swipes the new needle across a concrete block before use because the pop let's you know you're through the skin and not injecting into thin air, especially on wooly sheep
 

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