Find out about how Numnuts works and how does it delivers targeted pain relief
Understand what is needed for local anaesthetic to work in alleviating pain
Learn what was done to ensure improves the welfare of lambs
Over 8 years, Numnuts has been developed internationally
Innovating to Improve Lives.
A fresh company dedicated to improving animal welfare through delivering Numnuts technology to the world
We are an internationally renowned team of research vets (Moredun Research Institute & CSIRO) who have combined forces with award-winning product development consultancy 4c Design.
The multi-disciplinary team are all passionate about farming. Our goal is to ensure food and wool security by improving farm animal welfare. As consumers and retailers become more interested in the husbandry of the animals, we recognised the need for an improved marking tool – one that administers pain relief and is easy for the farmer to use.
Our approach was to create a practical on-farm solution, developed and tested by farmers for farmers.
Creating Numnuts wasn’t straight forward. The effectiveness of powerful local anaesthetics was the obvious starting point. The challenge for the design team was how to integrate local anaesthetics into modern farm husbandry practices in a safe, fast and reliable manner.
This might sound easy, but developing the system took hundreds of prototypes carrying out animal behavioural trials on over 5000 lambs across a 5 year cycle of development, testing and refinement.
All our work has been undertaken using best practice scientific and animal experimentation protocols, resulting in two international patents and a large compendium of animal behaviour data that has been scientifically validated.
We have produced a pilot batch of Numnuts Devices that will be ready (on a first come first served basis) in Australia only from August 2019 .
The easiest way to get your hands on a Numnuts device in 2019 is via our online shop.
NumOcaine® is an S4 drug only available via you vet. Please ask your local vet to contact us so we can get NumOcaine® onto your farm
We’re intending to launch Numnuts in the UK and New Zealand in 2020.
For more information see our availability schedule timeline here
Validated by CSIRO
Developed in collaboration with Meat & Livestock Australia Limited ABN 39 081 678
Developed with funding from the AWI
Senesino Pty Ltd. (c/o Mavlab)
33 Rowland Street
Slacks Creek
QLD 4127
Australia
Australian company no.: 633 849 779
ABN: 40 633 849 779
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Tel: 1300646413
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