Emasculatome
Product Details
Use for castrating lambs and kid goats.
Crushes the spermatic cords but does not cut the skin or the arteries to scrotum. Strong, precise action.
Benefits
- Crushes the spermatic cords but does not cut the skin or the arteries to scrotum. Thus no blood and less risk of fly-strike.
- Excellent for castrating ram lambs up to 90 days of age.
- Testicles dry up and scrotum shrinks within 21 days.
Specs
- 9" long
- 1 1/4" jaw length
- Stainless steel
How to Use
- Ensure that both testicles are pulled down.
- Only clamp one side of the scrotum at a time.
- When doing second side, slide the Emasculatome down a little. You do not want the opposing marks to meet.
Precautions
Listed below are recommended optional components or related items. Your particular situation may require alternative recommendations. Please call and talk to our consultants if there are any questions at 800-282-6631.
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Breeding Supplies
OB Gloves, clear, pkg of 10
Item #550900 -Keep arms and hands covered while assisting the births of sheep, goats, cattle and other livestock. Glove covers most arms up to the shoulder.
$2.75 -
Docking and Castrating
Pine Tar (squeezable bottle), 16 oz
Item #623200 -Cover wounds on sheep, goats, chickens and guardian dogs to repel flies and biting insects. Effective for several days after application.
$16.00 -
Docking and Castrating
Blood Stop Powder, 16 oz
Item #888094 -To slow and stop the bleeding of minor cuts and wounds. For treating excessive bleeding following docking or dehorning.
$10.00 -
Docking and Castrating
Catron® IV, 10 oz spray can
Item #888147 -Used for treating sheep with fly-strike and as a preventative after docking, castrating or ear tagging. 10 oz spray can.
$12.00
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Leslie J from Wyoming
Very very hard to both open, and clamp down. As a grown woman I couldn’t safely (for the sheep) manage it. My 6 foot healthy husband (age 69) could barely. We did use it. And it did not cut the skin, as it wasn’t supposed to. We hope the sperm cord was crushed enough. We held it on 5 seconds. We did spray with Liquid Wrench before using it. May have helped a little bit.
Kenneth M from Kansas
Worked great. I’ll wait until the 30 day mark to be sure, but I could feel the crimps. Note, they are hard to shut, you’ll have to pry it down on the ground to assist.
Jason B from Virginia
Very disappointed! The mechanism of the tool is overly stiff. The crimp tolerance is too tight and will break skin. The design is impossible to use one handed. Unless you have an octopus on staff I would not recommend. Using this product for 5 minutes made me question if I wanted to continue in sheep farming.
Anne-Marie S from Washington
Bought this to use on my Nigerian dwarf bucklings. It's impossible to use one-handed and even with 2 hands almost impossible to get enough of a grip to clamp properly. As a previous review stated, it's impossible to close with one hand when opened all the way. But operating two-handed (with someone else holding the kid) runs the risk of the spermatic cords slipping out and an incomplete job as a result.
Shei S from Ohio
This device may be fine for some animals but it's been a disaster for us. There are gaps on both sides that the spermatic cords can and do partially slip into. (I understand that's at least partially intentional, and maybe appropriate for using on calves. But Premier is selling this for sheep and goats.) My kid's left cord was successfully clamped the first time, but the right side has evaded the clamp 7 times now (3 attempts and 2x per attempt, and the last time I even did 3x).
You can't get the clamp around a 12 week goat's scrotum without opening it all the way, at which point it's impossible to close with one hand. (I'm a fairly large man, not lacking in hand size or strength.) But of course if you use two hands, then you can't hold the cords steady in the clamp. So it's really a three-person job. One to hold the goat steady, one to hold the cord in place, and one to clamp down.
I don't know why Premier is selling this piece of crap but I highly recommend getting a device without gaps at the ends if you're trying to castrate a goat at 12 weeks (once the urethra has grown enough to pass any kidney stones). This device just isn't good unless you're gonna kill the kids pretty young and so don't care about future kidney stones.
My poor goat has suffered pointlessly, and now we will just send him to the vet because I can't have him getting his young sisters pregnant, and I don't dare try using this thing again, or any other burdizzo since his right cord is mostly scar tissue now. Maybe I'll buy a banding set but that's so painful, and since he's now sixteen weeks it's getting pretty late.
