So I’m in my first year of studying animal care and although I understand the practice of docking sheep tails as soon as they’re born and why it Is done I can’t quite wrap my head around how it works medically. I may be wrong but I understood that if you cut off blood flow to an area / limb (like what is done with docking) then that limb becomes necrotic and dies. So how do sheep not get sepsis or other issues while their tail is becoming necrotic and how do they heal after an appendage has suddenly fallen odd? Wouldn’t their be a large wound??
Sorry I hope this makes sense!
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It can, actually – though rarely as others have pointed out. It’s commonly called “joint ill,” and it’s a form of septic arthritis.
It will happen most often on farms with poor husbandry.
The sub keeps removing my short answer so I’m typing more in the hope that the automoderator won’t remove it. What a terrible automoderator setting, don’t you think?
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