Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

I do think I prefer that to banding but I'm not sure the lambs think the same way. They are all acting like nothing happened this morning. We spent a lot of time talking to the vet (this guy is a younger Dr. Pol) and he won't band anything.

 

[NH homesteader]

My vet bands but I don't think I like it. My husband has helped a friend cut piglets, but we haven't done goats yet. Do you know the vet's reasoning for not banding? Just curious. I like to hear different perspectives, I know some people choose to band and some don't like it. I'm just trying to learn more about it

 

[Mike CHS]

The vet said he sees way too many cases of Tetanus caused by the banding not to mention the length of time it takes for the bands to do their job.

 

[Mike CHS]

The boys aren't quite as friendly this morning as yesterday morning but other than that they are behaving normally.

 

[Latestarter]

This will be a good measure of "memory retention" for those little guys

 

[Baymule]

I cut mine, they run back to momma and suck, their world is ok again. I would thing a bag of rotting testicles wouldn't be a good thing, but I have never banded, so I sure can't speak from experience.

 

[CntryBoy777]

When they are cut like that, what is used to close the incision? I wouldn't think it to be a very big incision.

 

[NH homesteader]

Honestly my little guy that was banded didn't seem bothered by it either. But it bothered ME!

Closing the incision? Well when DH does pigs, nothing. It heals fast.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Several of our vets don't like banding either.
I don't like it, but I know others really like banding.

I cut as well. I never close the incision. It always closes up and we've never had an issue with infection. I do apply some fly spray just out of caution, although we never had an issue in the past when we didn't use the spray.

I cut the end off of the scrotum and pop the testicles out, but I know some folks do a vertical cut.

The kids always bounce back right away and I never have to worry about missing a testicle.

 

[Mike CHS]

That was the same way they did it here also.