I'd like to ask as to how exactly I'd be able to get the male ox to stop animating? I know how to separate it from the rest of the spit in nifskope, although at the same time is removing the branches the best way to do it? I'd like to make a sort of spit kind of like the skeever spits with it for my castle mod.

look for ControllerManager and ControllerSequence and clear out

or, probably easier, copy ox mesh branch over to a static