IF YOU ARE GOING TO CASTRATE...

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Then you better know what you are doing...

A friend of mine needed some goats done....had 4 adults and 3 babies to be castrated...

Well, 3 adults as are the babies are all great...and the other one?....Dead...

Bled to death..

Owner of the goats hired someone who works in a feed store to do it....

beantownshootah

It sure ain't brain surgery, that's for sure.

dlrjj

Have done thousands of pigs. All it takes is a sharp knife, quick hands, deaf ears, and a strong stomach. Might not hurt to know what you are actually cutting.

mond

do it with a small elastic, like the sheep, see ya local sheep farmer, he has the plier thingy's to put the band on.no pain ,no probs.. [:)]

jbw1776

Cut, Pull, and Slap 'em on the * as they walk away. Pretty much all there is to it.[:D]

Ben

Heavy Chevy

quote:Originally posted by mond
do it with a small elastic, like the sheep, see ya local sheep farmer, he has the plier thingy's to put the band on.no pain ,no probs.. [:)]



Let's put a rubber on yours and test that no pain theory.

tapwater

It used to take Pops and me about 30 seconds per hog....unless we let them get over 40 lbs. Fight? Oooooeeeee could they squirm. Slit, reach in and pull, cut, spray with gentian violet and let 'em loose. Dad usually cut, 'cause he was faster. That means I sat on them and got pi**ed in the face.
I don't know how you could screw it up enough to result in that much bleeding. [V]

Mossbergboogie

rubber bands are much safer, You can use a crimp devise as well. We never cut calves stressed them way too much. 90 percent of the time we used the band method. never lost one

eastwood44mag

Banding can lead to some nasty infection, can't it?

dcon12

Cutting is 100% effective. Banding and elastrators are not. Don

tapwater

Don, when they dry up and fall off, THAT is effective birth control...[:D]....should be used on other species...[;)]

mond

heavy chevy, "quote"
try it on ya self bud, i'll keep ma ear to the ground. but if ya wanna play with ma nuts...mmmm try the blue oyster bar..[:D][:D]

jbw1776

quote:Originally posted by dcon12
Cutting is 100% effective. Banding and elastrators are not. Don


Around here, we still band some (cattle), but have gone back to knife cutting most. The reason we have gone back to knife cutting is because the slaughter houses have been complaining about "steers" that were banded. What dcon12's talking about is the same thing we've been hearing from the slaughter houses. Apparently, they were receiving "steers" that still had a testicle. The person doing the banding would only get one testicle down inside the band and left the other one up. Well when the scrotum rots off it appears to have been castrated, but obviously wasn't. Another problem we have had, though only once or twice out of hundreds of castrations, was we would band a calf, turn it out only to come back in a week to find the band had broken. We started using two bands per calf after that and never had that problem again. Never used the "zip-tie" type devices, so I can't comment on their effectiveness.

Ben

Heavy Chevy

pillow biter?

mond

now ,now, just cos you carnt get the elastic on..[:D][:D]

chris_ce

Reading this thread I get a pain. Like you get when someone is kicked there and you just seen it.

Horse Plains Drifter

quote:chrishiher Posted

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rubber bands are much safer, You can use a crimp devise as well. We never cut calves stressed them way too much. 90 percent of the time we used the band method. never lost one

Bands are the way to go.

grizzclaw

My wife's a pro, did me about thirty years ago and I never felt it coming.[:0][:0][:0]

calamitywood

We always banded the calves and cut the pigs. Never lost one never had an infection in the 18 years i lived on the farm. The thread about only one testicle is correct however. One should know how to count to two.

jltrent

They make a tool that you cut the testicle off and it crushes the cord about the testicle to prevent much blood loss. Unlike just using a knife where once in a while one will bleed to death. Also on larger calves you can get a banding machine to work on them now, but the calf will need a tetanious shot to stop infections.

DancesWithSheep

quote:Originally posted by tapwater
Slit, reach in and pull, cut, spray with gentian violet and let 'em loose.

Interesting that this is the same procedure you must undergo to be a GB board moderator.

shootlow

rubber bands and a shot of CDT for tetinus
i havent lost one yet

dolfan

After reading this thread, thank God I'm a city boy.[:D]

dcon12

quote:Originally posted by shootlow
rubber bands and a shot of CDT for tetinus
i havent lost one yet


I have not lost any yet but they do try to hide afterwords. Don

gbeggrow

[:0] Oh my![:D][:o)]

shootlow

i am going to do about 30 kidd billies this weekend
any one else need it while i got the bands out [;)]

zipperzap

What!?? No teeth???

Oh MY![:0][:0][:0]

redrebel

quote:Originally posted by zipperzap
What!?? No teeth???

Oh MY![:0][:0][:0]




I actually seen it done that way before. Of course I was on the keep the calf held down end.

dipits

After readin this thread .

PLEASE STOP BANDING and send me the cuttings .

Heavy Chevy

quote:Originally posted by shootlow
i am going to do about 30 kidd billies this weekend
any one else need it while i got the bands out [;)]


Ya, take care of that English dude while you're at it! [:)][8D]

mond

heavy chevy.(big & daft) do it yourself...[:D][:D]

mond

seems like the band HAS been used eh! big & daft..[:D][:D]

richbug

Need to make sure the animals have had enough vitamin "k" in their diet helps with clotting. Learned that with hogs many years ago.

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