Brian Eadie

product designer with textile, game bird, livestock and sports club products under my belt and a future hopefully in Animal Welfare, Clubtags and Keysie

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ClipFitter demo of extreme lamb marking, in Shetland. Exciting new clip development revealed !

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@cjtaylor92 @NuffieldFarming Claire do look out for what’s gradually becoming compulsory pain relief at ‘tailing’ in NZ, happening tomorrow between Queenstown & Dunedin. 2 Scottish inventions leading the race … for the sake of Lambkind :)

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@joycemcm @NicolaSturgeon Cove would have happy memories too Joyce … !

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@alexrattee @DefraGovUK It would be nice to think that pain relief at castration and tailing (lambs) could be included one day soon.

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@dmwyatt80 @Agrivetbusiness @EmCharlotteAnn @tellenby Do also keep your eye on https://t.co/5TmqptRm5q and it’s blog page, for ‘chat’, and email [email protected] anytime.

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ClipFitter reaches Australia - (in some pleasant winter weather). Amazed that lambs are same age as here?

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@EmCharlotteAnn Interesting Emily …. I’ve got a number of amateur videos of people using clips here https://t.co/bjZ9cJO70N. Some of them are pretty efficient - some not!

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@EmCharlotteAnn Sorry Emily .. do you mean for mulesing type of work or castration ?

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@EmCharlotteAnn Maybe I have the wrong end of the stick? He sent me some recently and they did seem quite ‘soft’.
(Promise !!?)

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@EmCharlotteAnn Bruce Dumbrell at Leader told me once they had warehouses full of them still ! Applicator looks like big investment too … shame for the developer. Hope ClipFitter doesn’t end up the same !!

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@EmCharlotteAnn Thanks .. can’t have worked ? Our clips (well, the fitter) are so tight they hold air in a balloon - so might have a better chance of working?

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@EmCharlotteAnn Thanks Emily … wish I knew what occlusion meant !

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@Agrivetbusiness @EmCharlotteAnn @tellenby Like ear-tag systems I developed and now owned by Datamars/Zeetag we supplied them from the UK to start with. ClipFitter is still at that stage. Product pack now on the way to Ali Small at CSIRO, and another with AWI Director being trialled privately now. First NZ trial in Oct.

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@Agrivetbusiness @EmCharlotteAnn @tellenby Sorry if I missed your enquiry ! Very happy to help you now if it’s not too late?

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@EmCharlotteAnn @tellenby No they don’t Emily - SRUC trials proved ClipFitter equivalent to rings plus 2 drugs (anaesthetic & analgesic) .. mech nerve block works

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@EmCharlotteAnn @tellenby This is one video Emily. The young man is using his thigh as a lever point I see ! https://t.co/OeXF2zHqTK

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@EmCharlotteAnn @Tedthekelpie Yes we are fitting clips very satisfactorily to tails. Ideal if you can find that in-between but as well. Bloodless and tail off much more quickly than rings. Several videos on line via my variously confusing web pages

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@EmCharlotteAnn @tellenby Better get my brain in gear! (We’ve got a couple of ClipFitter sample packs in Australia just now .. )

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@Tedthekelpie @EmCharlotteAnn We are starting (this week!) to make our clips from plant based material - degraded by sun and bugs in around 6m to 1y. Mentioned in a bit more detail on https://t.co/5TmqptRm5q

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@EmCharlotteAnn Emily - I think you must be referring to clips made in Australia … used for tailing or mulesing ? I have samples from Leader tags. Ours are quite different - very rigid and certainly not flimsy - fitted with a very powerful applicator. https://t.co/w30OC30u4Q for more info.

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@tellenby Thank you Lesley. Enjoyed meeting Mr P at the RWS!