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<blockquote data-quote="CattleAnnie" data-source="post: 24781" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>We band our calves. No problem, like the man says, pretty easy to count to two. Occasionally get a calf with a real short neck on the scrotum, or one that no matter how you try can't manoever that second nut down into the sac, so I just mark him down in the book and leave him till branding day to band then. Seems like that extra month or two of growing makes it easier to band those small testie boys.</p><p>One reason we avoid the knife here is infection. It's usually pretty mucky by the time calving is full steam, so an open wound is like asking for trouble. Cutting the calves at branding time would be an option, but we generally trail them out to the pasture the week after we brand, and it's darn near impossible to moniter their health once they hit that place (it's got a total size of 30 miles long by 8 miles wide of area, and most of it's straight up or down river breaks with bush thick as hairs on the dogs back. Great grass in there, but next to impossible to rope an animal to treat them, and the gathering corrals are few and miles of rough country apart. Generally, the animals do or die out there, so the less chance of infection when we process them, the better).</p><p>It's interesting though to see the different points of view and reasons why people choose the way they do.</p><p>Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleAnnie, post: 24781, member: 220"] We band our calves. No problem, like the man says, pretty easy to count to two. Occasionally get a calf with a real short neck on the scrotum, or one that no matter how you try can't manoever that second nut down into the sac, so I just mark him down in the book and leave him till branding day to band then. Seems like that extra month or two of growing makes it easier to band those small testie boys. One reason we avoid the knife here is infection. It's usually pretty mucky by the time calving is full steam, so an open wound is like asking for trouble. Cutting the calves at branding time would be an option, but we generally trail them out to the pasture the week after we brand, and it's darn near impossible to moniter their health once they hit that place (it's got a total size of 30 miles long by 8 miles wide of area, and most of it's straight up or down river breaks with bush thick as hairs on the dogs back. Great grass in there, but next to impossible to rope an animal to treat them, and the gathering corrals are few and miles of rough country apart. Generally, the animals do or die out there, so the less chance of infection when we process them, the better). It's interesting though to see the different points of view and reasons why people choose the way they do. Take care. [/QUOTE]
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