Castration of animals

Castration of animals 

Castration of animals

the most common surgery. Removal of the gonads in males called orchiectomy.

testes

The economic importance of castration is that increased susceptibility of the organism to obesity, increased body weight in animal feeding, meat fattened castrates becomes tender and loses the characteristic odor and taste, characteristic male meat (especially evident in hogs, goats, rams). They disappear exuberant temper, belligerence, obstinacy (it is possible to group content). Castration prevents family mating and fertilization of females nepleminnyh males, which is important when conducting purposeful breeding and artificial insemination in cattle.

With therapeutic purposes castrated males spend with intravaginal hernia, orchitis, periorhitah, injury to the testes and spermatic cord diseases.

Castration