banding bulls

Irishmale

Curious about banding bulls? What ages can it be done? Is it effective? Is it hard on the beast? Is it good for the weaners the burdizzo failed on?

epfff

i banded a bunch of yearlings going out to grass 8 days ago
my first time
all still alive anyway
few of the stronger 1s seemed to swell a bit but burdzzo will cause swelling as well
few seem to have no effect yet
majority have gone off colour and are ready to fall off now
my jury is still out
love to hear how its done right as i put them in to do a few as experement and see how it weent but so handy i kept going at it and done them all

ootbitb

from wikihow..

What age is best to castrate? One thing you should remember is that the younger the animal is done, the better. Bulls should be castrated no older than 8 months of age. Bulls can be castrated at any time, but you must remember that if you castrate a bull that is at least 12 months of age, you will notice a loss in productivity:
The older the animal is at castration, the greater the stress, risk of bleeding, and the slower the growth rate for that animal.
On average, calves are castrated around 8 weeks of age or sooner. Some producers, depending on how busy they are and their willingness to go out to the pasture to find calves to tag and castrate, will steer a bull calf when it is a day to two days old. Other producers would rather run the calves through a chute when they're around two and a half months old when they can castrate, tag and vaccinate them all in one go.

also says consider a tetanus jag.

bbam

epfff wrote: »

i banded a bunch of yearlings going out to grass 8 days ago
my first time
all still alive anyway
few of the stronger 1s seemed to swell a bit but burdzzo will cause swelling as well
few seem to have no effect yet
majority have gone off colour and are ready to fall off now
my jury is still out
love to hear how its done right as i put them in to do a few as experement and see how it weent but so handy i kept going at it and done them all

Did you give any shots?
I read somewhere that tetanus can be given to protect them.

epfff

bbam wrote: »

Did you give any shots?
I read somewhere that tetanus can be given to protect them.

had fully planed to tetanus them and only do a few do rest with burdzzo but silage was fully gone and they were going to out farm with bad handling facilities on it(thats why they were squesed in first place fan of bulls here)
so answer is i ment to but never got round to it
have to say went looking at them next day a little nervious that their would be a few deaths

1chippy

we banded 12 in january and out of that we skulled 8. all on th one day. absolutaly no issues with them and it was only a couple of days before the snow and they were being outwintered. i would definatly recommend it and have another couple to do in a week or two. brilliant job and they didnt even go back.
We gave them the 10 in 1 shot the day they were done and they had all been done with 2 blackleg vaccinations prior to that.