El Reg disavows any responsibility...
Oh bollocks! Now you tell me!
If you're a gentleman looking to counteract the effects of ageing, a new study on sheep may have the answer – but you're going to have to say goodbye to your family jewels in return for a slowdown of your DNA's ageing process. "Both farmers and scientists have known for some time that castrated male sheep live on average much …
Ewe should know that we hate it when you try to pull the wool over our eyes, so ramming your love of Unix down our throats is just in poor taste. You shouldn't go out on a lamb, chop it off early & we might tallow you to keep posting these attrocious puns. I swear, I've not herd such flocking punnery as what I read in these threads!
*Dodges the shears & runs for the hills*
Interesting, I would whether these boffins have spoken to the fairly underground "nullo" community about this and ask about their health. For those who don't know, these are a small group of predominately gay men who have voluntarily completely castrated themselves, so they have a completely flat pair of underpants.
Anon, because I don't want you becoming blind and monkish by this.
One would assume the same would apply for those that have gone done the mail->female trans-gender process.
As far as I know all the essential bits that make up a male are lopped off.
Maybe they are just not old enough yet. That is the problem with these sorts of studies, humans just live too long for a quick result.
"Given the current state of the world this mayn't be a bad idea to apply more generally." When the YN published Agenda 21 the likes of Clarkson termed it an infringement of human rights, socialist/commie globalisation etc. and now the same people are bleating about the problems it was solving. Maybe they didn't like the idea of educating females and helping bloody natives!.
I wonder if the boffins have taken into consideration the frequency and annual range of tupping in domestic sheep breeds? Typically sheep are bred in the autumn as shortening of daylight is one of the main triggers to oestrus in ewes, so sheep only get their oats for a short period each year.
Wild breeds often breed according to not only seasonal daylight but conditions such as drought or temperature.
I lived in Idaho once, and had a few sheep in the back of my property (for tax purposes, I could do without the forthcoming jokes). No one in his right mind would castrate a sheep with a knife, that could easily lead to an infection. A glorified rubber band around the scrotum does the trick safely.
Anyone who has been on a sheep farm (or watched The Yorkshire Vet TV series) will know that farmers have to limit the amount of time a tup (ram) spends in field of ewes because the tup will keep servicing the ewes to the point of exhaustion, dehydration and starvation. So, with rams, yes this research is probably valid, maybe even rabbits but does it really have anything to say about humans? Even teenagers like to take time out to eat and drink.