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| Any teaser ram candidate should possess the following: healthy, moderate size, some sexual experience. Hold off feed overnight and tranquillize with xylazine by intramuscular injection. Restrain on back, clip & prep as for normal surgery. |
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| Line block using 2% lidocaine diluted 50:50 with sterile water or saline. |
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| Make a skin incision on the neck of the scrotum to the side of the median raphe. Incision should be ~ 3 cm in length. |
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| Dissect the subcutaneous tissues to enable the tunic containing the vas deferens and spermatic vessels to be isolated. |
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| Careful not to mistake the penis for the spermatic cord |
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| Using your fingers with blunt dissection, expose the spermatic cord and incise the tunic, being careful not to cut the pampiniform plexus or other structures. |
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| Carefully dissect out a portion of the vas deferens, and verify that it is not the spermatic vein or artery by checking to see if it fills with blood. |
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| Using a resorbable suture such as catgut, ligate the vas deferens in 2 locations, approximately 1.5 cm apart |
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| It may be prudent to save the section removed in a preservative such as formalin, in order to verify the correct structure was removed. |
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| Close the tunica with absorable suture material in a continuous pattern. The skin can be closed using a non-absorbable material such as vetafil. Sutures can be removed in 10 days, however the ram should not be used for teasing for 6 to 8 weeks to assure that the ram is infertile. It is not uncommon for sperm granulomas to develop in a few years, or teasers to lose libido. |
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