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Banding or Castration?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nesikep" data-source="post: 827757" data-attributes="member: 9096"><p>I'd say you'd have to be more wary of tetanus by cutting rather than banding.. sounds more logical to me that if you have an open wound you'd open to door to infection more than a rubber band.</p><p></p><p>I've got my reservations about advice from vets... I had an adult cow dehorned once, and the vet said I didn't need to do anything to the wound (this was done in Feb.)... well, come may, she got flies laying eggs in there, and I had a nightmare for 2 months to get her cleaned up, and with all that stress, she didn't rebreed... so I lost a perfectly good cow to his advice... Of course once there's a problem, he'd tell me to give tetracycline, etc and err on the side of caution every time, but I got her fixed back up with a lot of iodine, alcohol, and bandages smeared with pine pitch and beeswax... once the wounds were clean, she healed up really fast and it was surprising</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nesikep, post: 827757, member: 9096"] I'd say you'd have to be more wary of tetanus by cutting rather than banding.. sounds more logical to me that if you have an open wound you'd open to door to infection more than a rubber band. I've got my reservations about advice from vets... I had an adult cow dehorned once, and the vet said I didn't need to do anything to the wound (this was done in Feb.)... well, come may, she got flies laying eggs in there, and I had a nightmare for 2 months to get her cleaned up, and with all that stress, she didn't rebreed... so I lost a perfectly good cow to his advice... Of course once there's a problem, he'd tell me to give tetracycline, etc and err on the side of caution every time, but I got her fixed back up with a lot of iodine, alcohol, and bandages smeared with pine pitch and beeswax... once the wounds were clean, she healed up really fast and it was surprising [/QUOTE]
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