Description

Tri-Solfen

Tri-Solfen® – Animal welfare considerations are an essential part of animal husbandry programs and extremely important to producers, customers and the industry.

Whether it’s castration, disbudding or dehorning calves or tail docking, muelsing or castration of lambs applying Tri-Solfen® delivers not only pain relief but also productivity gains with faster recovery of calves and lambs.

Tri-Solfen® is an easy to administer, non-prescription, over the counter formulation with a powerful combination of two local anaesthetics for instant and longer-term pain relief, adrenaline to reduce bleeding and an antiseptic agent to help reduce infection risk.

Tri-Solfen® gel formulation also helps to seal the wound for improved wound healing. Tri-Solfen® is good for your calves and lambs and good for the industry. It’s the Better Choice®.

Best practice is essential for our industry

The Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for sheep was first introduced in Australian in 2016. In these guidelines there are specific references to the use of pain relief when carrying out procedures such as mulesing, disbudding, castration and tail docking.

Directions Of Use

Use of the special Tri-Solfen applicator is recommended.

Mulesing and tail docking in lambs:

• Apply the Tri-Solfen spray to the wound immediately after mulesing or tail docking.
• Ensure that the entire wound area is evenly covered with spray, particularly wound edges.
• Do not spray to runoff.
• Insecticidal preparations registered to treat mulesing wounds can be applied after the application of Tri-Solfen. However, high volume fly treatments are not suitable to be used as they are likely to wash the Tri-Solfen from the wound.

Castration in lambs and calves:

• Cut through the skin of the scrotum as per normal procedure and gently extrude the testis to expose the spermatic cord (without cutting or tearing it).
• Insert nozzle through skin incision (prior to removal of testicle) and carefully advance applicator along the length of exposed cord as far as possible within the scrotum.
• Eject one third (1/3) of the total Tri-Solfen dose as the applicator is withdrawn from the scrotum to coat the spermatic cord.
• Insert nozzle through the other scrotal incision and apply one third(1/3) of total Tri-Solfen dose to the spermatic cord (as described above).
• After application of Tri-Solfen to the spermatic cords, the testicles can be extracted from the scrotum and removed as per the normal procedure.
• Lastly, apply the final one third (1/3) of the total Tri-Solfen dose to the edges of the scrotal skin wound(s).

Disbudding and dehorning in calves:

• Perform disbudding or dehorning for each horn according to accepted procedures.
• Immediately after disbudding or dehorning the first horn, apply Tri-Solfen with the recommended applicator to completely cover the wound including the surrounding burn wound (if using cautery) or the surrounding cut skin edge (if using excision).
• Repeat step 2 for the second horn, also ensuring the wound and surrounding affected tissues are completely covered.
• Do not spray to run-off.
• Take care to prevent Tri-Solfen from getting into the eyes of treated calves.
• Use of the special Tri-Solfen applicator is recommended.

Rates are a general guide only.  Before opening, carefully read Tri-Solfen Topical Anaesthetic & Antiseptic Solution directions for use, precautionary and protection statements, storage and disposal, safety directions and first aid instructions.

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