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For those of you who band at birth, how much dosage of tetanus do you administer?
dun":1i3io8sb said:We band from birth to 3 months and don;t give anything. The oldest calves we've banded (calicrate bander) was 7 months, those we gave shots. Now anything older then 3 months we just knife. Actually the vet does at fall workup. We'll have 3-4 this fall to do that way. Last year we had one get in infection in his bag, but a week later a heifer came into heat and he rode her enough that he broke the bag open and it drained and healed
A hundred years ago (or so it seems) we knifed everything and just slapped a handfull of pinetar on the wound. Had one bleed to death so that's when we started banding
We cut a dozen or so that day and he was the only one with a problem. But the meat was well bled out and tasted fine.JHH":3vxxtnf1 said:dun":3vxxtnf1 said:We band from birth to 3 months and don;t give anything. The oldest calves we've banded (calicrate bander) was 7 months, those we gave shots. Now anything older then 3 months we just knife. Actually the vet does at fall workup. We'll have 3-4 this fall to do that way. Last year we had one get in infection in his bag, but a week later a heifer came into heat and he rode her enough that he broke the bag open and it drained and healed
A hundred years ago (or so it seems) we knifed everything and just slapped a handfull of pinetar on the wound. Had one bleed to death so that's when we started banding
Dad always used pinetar for alot of stuff, that included. Must not of cut that one in the right sign Dun. I seen my dad do the very same thing. Cut a 600 lb bull calf and he bled to death. I had seen him cut lots of hogs and calves but he must have done something wrong on that one.
dun":18s8d85l said:Last year we had one get in infection in his bag, but a week later a heifer came into heat and he rode her enough that he broke the bag open and it drained and healed .
It didn;t look all that bad, I figured it was just swelled form the operation.AngusLimoX":1c7i14ws said:dun":1c7i14ws said:Last year we had one get in infection in his bag, but a week later a heifer came into heat and he rode her enough that he broke the bag open and it drained and healed .
Yes breeding would be on my mind too if my balls had just been cut out and I had an infected bag!!!
There's that "benign neglect" thing kicking in again.
We have banded at birth, pinched and cut, with no shots and no problems. I am recalling reading somewhere that some regions/environments may have more of a tetenus concern than others??
Idaman":1ub452th said:Banded tons of calves at birth never one problem with tetanus. Now when we band bigger calves up to a year we give the tetanus but never to small calves.
If you knife cut then to prevent bleeding pull the testicle clear out and NEVER use a knife on the testicle cord ever. I have cut so many this way I don't want to talk about it but whatever age do not cut the cord or a certain percentage will bleed to death. Never had one die after pulling out the cord even up to over one year of age.