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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 354794" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>The reason why not spring or summer... there are flies. Usually in winter flies aren't much of a problem.</p><p></p><p>When the horn breaks off it will bleed, the blood will attrack flies, they will lay eggs, the eggs will hatch and you'll have maggotts in the wound.</p><p></p><p>Like I said earlier, you will not know when this is going to happen, so you might find out too late.</p><p></p><p>Maybe I didn't do a very good job of banding the horns, but I assure you its easier said than done to get the band around that ring of skin at the horn base and to get it to stay there.</p><p></p><p>I burn the hornbuds with a gas dehorner working with lighter fluid and to me its a far better way of dealing with horns. The heifers I tried to band was bought in and the horns were about 4'' long at the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 354794, member: 4353"] The reason why not spring or summer... there are flies. Usually in winter flies aren't much of a problem. When the horn breaks off it will bleed, the blood will attrack flies, they will lay eggs, the eggs will hatch and you'll have maggotts in the wound. Like I said earlier, you will not know when this is going to happen, so you might find out too late. Maybe I didn't do a very good job of banding the horns, but I assure you its easier said than done to get the band around that ring of skin at the horn base and to get it to stay there. I burn the hornbuds with a gas dehorner working with lighter fluid and to me its a far better way of dealing with horns. The heifers I tried to band was bought in and the horns were about 4'' long at the time. [/QUOTE]
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