Neutering @ 5 weeks tomorrow

[Livinwright Farm]

"Only the mob would take a man's jewels and THEN butcher him".

Nope, I don't think he'll be much help at all!

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Now that you have given me quite a laugh! My family(including my dad) has decided banding is the way to go! in doing the snippetty-doo-dah procedure, there is a risk of infection, and it just entails so much more devotion to them instead of other things that need doing on a growing farm.
Would a larger banding tool work for banding a 7mo. old buckling?

 

[helmstead]

I successfully banded a 6 month old ND buck(ling) with the small bander. Had to put the testicles through one at a time, and it was a squeeze, but it worked fine with a little patience.

 

[chandasue]

"Only the mob would take a man's jewels and THEN butcher him".

ROFLMAO!!!

 

[TigerLilly]

My friend and my husband sure were cringing by the time I was done...

Funny, I told him that I thought we should eventually work up to keeping our boys, banding them, and then raising them for meat. After the color returned to his ghostly white face and he wiped the sweat from his brow he says to me:

"Only the mob would take a man's jewels and THEN butcher him".

That has to be the quote of the year!

 

[Theykeepmebusy]

 

[LadyNai]

My parents got a banding machine last year and Mom said it was less traumatic on Dad - who usually ends up doing the neutering.

Not to mention, he yelled only cause he didn't like being held. Nothing else.

I would also wait for 6-8 weeks.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

My neighbor has an emasculator and uses it on her flock of sheep and LOVES it. I've heard really great things about them.

 

[mistee]

I always took my boys to the vet to get cut,, takes seconds and only cost me around $5 a boy. She did have me do it myself on my last 2 boys so I could do it myelf this year but I just dont know,,,lol... My vet likes to cut the first couple weeks but I dont agree w/ that..... I might look into banding this year instead of cutting,, just dont know ifI got the stomach to do that myself this year,,lol..

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I always took my boys to the vet to get cut,, takes seconds and only cost me around $5 a boy. She did have me do it myself on my last 2 boys so I could do it myelf this year but I just dont know,,,lol... My vet likes to cut the first couple weeks but I dont agree w/ that..... I might look into banding this year instead of cutting,, just dont know ifI got the stomach to do that myself this year,,lol..

I'm going to cut my ram lambs this year, probably next weekend. It's so much easier and quicker than the bander (if you can believe it) and they recover much quicker.