castration

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...

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...

Hello Everyone, I have a not so short list of questions that I’m struggling to find answers for. Some of them may sound odd. But, we really do try to improve the lives of all of our animals that are in our lives whether they are in our home or on the farm. So here goes. 1. Does anyone use the...

Just as everything is settling down, I went to check and Dilly is bleeding. He was banded approx 4 weeks ago (1 week old but he had dropped) and a livestock vet said the banding looked great but today I went to check and his parts were bleeding and were barely hanging on my a strand. From my...

Short Question: Will wethering calm an adult ram? Long Story: We have a ram, Ollie, who’s about a year old now. He was a bottle baby and our first sheep. In spite of our best efforts we made mistakes in handling him while he was a wee thing. He was sort of raised as if he were a hybrid between...

Hi, I'm new here and new to goats in general as well. I just got a Boer wether in trade on June 11th. He was elastrated the day before on the 10th by his breeder. It's been nearly a month and his scrotum is dried up like it should be but isn't even starting to drop off. It seems like the band...

Hey everyone! We had our two newest boys wethered at the vet on the 5th. The vet cut them and left them open, everything was great. Both boys are acting chipper as can be, great appetites. One boy looks "closed", like the incision has healed. The other, slightly larger boy, has what looks...