Author Topic: Headstock ? (Read 1020 times)

SallyintNorth · « **on:** June 25, 2020, 05:59:14 pm »

Anyone use a headstock to steady a sheep for treatment, dagging, clipping etc?

I've been hand clipping our hoggs, and some of them stand (in a small pen) with no restraint at all, which is lovely, but the two today both had to be haltered and both hated it. I've a friend who uses a headstock for hers, anyone else use one, or any other solutions?

(My back is not up to the conventional method of restraining and bending over them, I can't always even manage to do their bellies these days

But if they stand for clipping, then I am usually still fit enough to manage to turn them over and clip the bits of the belly I couldn't reach from the side.)

Buttermilk · « **Reply #1 on:** June 25, 2020, 06:51:32 pm »

I use one. Far easier than taking halters on and off and they do not seem to fight it the same. I use a folded towel over it so the sheeps head does not drop down between the forward pointing arms.