Big thumbs up from me. Took me a little while to get to grips with them but the results speak for themselves. Lambs bounding off without a care in the world. .... will be topping up supplies for this year soon. Thank you!

Marked 65 lambs (av 15 days old ) in 40 minutes this afternoon - Working like a dream - one person loading the chute - Balls and tails by me (loading my own clips) - Midi clips on balls, Maxi Clips on Tails

It is genuinely pain-free immediately after the clip has been closed – a process taking literally a second or two

We were moving lambs in and out of fields at pace, with no stragglers or distressed lambs – a rare sight and our work was done much more quickly. We will continue to use ClipFitter in future years

"Here's a video of us marking lambs on our chute - it all works well and particularly with the plastic clips we have no failures - 278 locked on every time here""

"Just sheared all the ewes last week, dosed the lambs and they look great 👌no issues at all"

"Having played an active part in ClipFitter farm-use development over the years, we used them on every lamb this year. I can safely say we have undoubtedly increased our throughput at marking time, thanks to the noticeably fast recovery of lambs fitted with clips."

"On <7 day old lambs, Clips are so easy on tails, and produce clean castration scars compared to rings."

"Use of the ClipFitter device was able to mitigate pain associated with castration to a level indistinguishable from uncastrated lambs in younger lambs, and to low levels in older lambs. Further, in both ages the pain associated with tail docking was equivalent to that seen when local anaesthetic and analgesic was provided."

"Donald our stockman firmly believes that early ringing checks them and he even think it mismothers some. Fitting clips at a later stage has to have benefits."

"I certainly think it's the way forward, especially as an assurance assessor - we have to be legal!"

"The lambs are so chilled out you have to see it to believe it!"

"Clips are easy to use. It has allowed me to handle the sheep less, I gather at 6 weeks old to do everything I need to them! Great for the management of my flock."

"Angus clipped some of the Stagehall lambs for me last week - it was a small group of triplets that were lambed outside so they would have been 8 or 9 weeks old. It went well with lambs trotting off to follow mothers after application and all good since. Angus is pleased with system and feels any marginal increase in time taken is worth it."

Tail docking and castration of lambs is a topic that is on our radar to follow carefully over the next couple of years for changes in interpretation, rules or regulations that may come about as a result of the AWC report.

We can confirm that ClipFitter is legal to use in England, as long as the procedure is carried out on a lamb aged not more than 7 days.

It would be greatly beneficial for the sheep industry if technical changes to the legislation in Wales could be made as soon as possible to allow the use of Clipfitter on lambs up to three months old

Emerging evidence suggests that it is a practical and feasible alternative to the use of rubber rings that results in greatly reduced pain responses to castration and tail docking carried out separately.

I am thrilled with the Clipfitter. It took a bit to get used too, and the lambs need to be chunky (and have testicles that have enough weight to droop). But now I know that I find it really easy to use and the lambs are barely impacted. It is a brilliant product and I have been asked to join a webinar for farmers about it in September.

We found Clipfitter excellent...once we got used to using it.
We had abandoned rings for castration so needed to find a better method for castration..... Given the type of sheep we keep, all woolly tailed, we had continued to use rings for tails. This year we used ClipFitter for both and were really pleased with the results.....

We have been lambing sheep for over 40 years and are always looking to adapt and improve, can't fault clipfitter, definitely doesn't check growth and we will be using clips next lambing time.

Overall I have been very pleased with the performance of the clips and now have several sets of Elastrator applicators that I feel are surplus to requirements, maybe i should get them sold off before the market collapses.