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band or castrate?
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<blockquote data-quote="Cattle Rack Rancher" data-source="post: 101977" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>I don't know about the risk but they're quite a bit harder to hold after one year. We've done a couple that we intended to keep as bulls because they just weren't looking that good. Hard to hold.</p><p>In our area, it seems the buyers prefer to have them banded. I did an experiment last year and banded some calves at about a month old and castrated the others at about six months. The difference I lost in weight gain was more than made up by the increase in price per pound so this year I'm banding everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattle Rack Rancher, post: 101977, member: 245"] I don't know about the risk but they're quite a bit harder to hold after one year. We've done a couple that we intended to keep as bulls because they just weren't looking that good. Hard to hold. In our area, it seems the buyers prefer to have them banded. I did an experiment last year and banded some calves at about a month old and castrated the others at about six months. The difference I lost in weight gain was more than made up by the increase in price per pound so this year I'm banding everything. [/QUOTE]
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