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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron" data-source="post: 827795" data-attributes="member: 1682"><p>When you dehorn, especially older animals, you need to pack the sinus with pine tar to keep the flies out.</p><p></p><p>If it does become infected/infested (because you left it open) dump a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in the sinus. Clear it right up. :cowboy: </p><p></p><p>No worries about tetanus with cutting. Cut is clean and it drains instead of festering. The only worry is blood loss (which is always at the back of my mind). I had real good luck with cutting up till last fall. I cut my fall calves with my usual Newberry knife and crushed/cut the cords with an emasculator. Well, next morning, I woke up to two dead calves (I felt sick) :frowns: . They had been bleeding a bit after the procedure, but nothing too major. It was a cold November night (froze) and I think they kept getting up and down all night which, as tytower mentioned, can open the wound up. Also, aggressive licking by the calf and cow will keep the blood flowing.</p><p></p><p>I always liked cutting because it has a fraction of the recovery time that banding has. Banded calves will spend 2 weeks continually getting up and lying down because they are so uncomfortable. Cut calves will be back to normal within a couple days.</p><p></p><p>I am a little gun shy about cutting now and will go back to banding, opting for the XL bands, as the green 'cheerios' break way to often and I have ended up in the past with sick calves where the band only lasted 1/2 as long as it should, breaks, and the calf ends up walking around with a 1/2 rotten piece of flesh dangling.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron, post: 827795, member: 1682"] When you dehorn, especially older animals, you need to pack the sinus with pine tar to keep the flies out. If it does become infected/infested (because you left it open) dump a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in the sinus. Clear it right up. :cowboy: No worries about tetanus with cutting. Cut is clean and it drains instead of festering. The only worry is blood loss (which is always at the back of my mind). I had real good luck with cutting up till last fall. I cut my fall calves with my usual Newberry knife and crushed/cut the cords with an emasculator. Well, next morning, I woke up to two dead calves (I felt sick) :frowns: . They had been bleeding a bit after the procedure, but nothing too major. It was a cold November night (froze) and I think they kept getting up and down all night which, as tytower mentioned, can open the wound up. Also, aggressive licking by the calf and cow will keep the blood flowing. I always liked cutting because it has a fraction of the recovery time that banding has. Banded calves will spend 2 weeks continually getting up and lying down because they are so uncomfortable. Cut calves will be back to normal within a couple days. I am a little gun shy about cutting now and will go back to banding, opting for the XL bands, as the green 'cheerios' break way to often and I have ended up in the past with sick calves where the band only lasted 1/2 as long as it should, breaks, and the calf ends up walking around with a 1/2 rotten piece of flesh dangling. [/QUOTE]
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