castrating

Hello everyone, I raise Kunekune pigs amongst other animals. I am a beginner, this year I had by first three litters, hooray! I'd been waiting for that for some time. Yesterday after much research on YouTube, we castrated a bunch of piglets (a feral pig got to my kk sow 😑, so all the half...

Hi All, I have two 4 month Nigerian goat bucklings that I banded about 4 days ago. All was going well, balls were starting to shrink, until today they both started smelling horrible! Like death. I checked the bands and everything looks normal. No swelling, oozing or redness. I did not see any...

So I tried out the burdizzo method of castration this year on a couple of kids, and now I keep second guessing myself whether I did it right or not. I keep checking them and wondering if they're actually getting smaller or if they don't feel like they're getting harder. I'll have to check the...