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How do ye hold calves for tagging/dehorning?

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  • #32
    redzerologhlen
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    Viewtodiefor wrote: »
    Just dehorned 21 2mth old bull calves put their head through a gate an hour flat! I need punts now!

    Did ten yesterday for a neighbour, 3 of them were charolais calfs born in February :eek: I dont know how anyone in their right mind would leave them so long to do them. Did 10 of our own today all under 3 weeks and they were so much easier to handle in comparison.


  • #33
    Damo810
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    redzerologhlen wrote: »
    Did ten yesterday for a neighbour, 3 of them were charolais calfs born in February :eek: I dont know how anyone in their right mind would leave them so long to do them. Did 10 of our own today all under 3 weeks and they were so much easier to handle in comparison.

    I was working for a fella the other day, wanted to sell his cattle in a week or two, yearlings, so he decided to wait until Friday to get them cut off. Few of them were 5 inches long, with holes on each side of the animals head. Should all be done asap whiles the animals young..


  • #34
    redzerologhlen
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    Damo810 wrote: »
    I was working for a fella the other day, wanted to sell his cattle in a week or two, yearlings, so he decided to wait until Friday to get them cut off. Few of them were 5 inches long, with holes on each side of the animals head. Should all be done asap whiles the animals young..

    Well if your going sawing at that age you have to leave a hole to let any infection/puss out to the best of my knowledge. Its awful blagarding on the cattle to be doing at at that age though, we often had one or two that we missed as calves but that would be all. All the neighbours around used to get my auld lad to cut horns when I was young lad, I often remember coming home covered from head to toe in blood after doing 20 or 30 year and a half bullocks with him. The older generation loved a bit of hardship.


  • #35
    Bodacious
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    ceannfort wrote: »
    I know someone who has a teemore crate an finds the scoop no use. The calf lyes on it. Front an back legs go under it an you can't get it back down and end up lifting the calf out? Anyone use the odonovan crate? It looks a nice simple design.

    Yep, the odd calf can sit like a dog with his back legs under the scoop.. but his head or front legs cannot move and scoop still keeping the back straight so no choking/pressure on the neck.

    i know what your friend is saying when they do this you let scoop down a click at a time when you are done and pull legs back clear of the scoop nothing is completely faultless i suppose.

    farmers are always shouting at me "great yoke that but wheels are too small you should wheelbarrow wheels on it!" but it'd far too unstable then and you wouldnt be able to let her down off of the wheels on flat surface and when travelling in trailer!


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