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<blockquote data-quote="CattleAnnie" data-source="post: 174450" data-attributes="member: 220"><p>Just an add on here.</p><p></p><p>If you don't get both nuts in the band the first time, I'd highly advise putting a new band onto the bander.</p><p></p><p>The only wreck we've ever had banding was once when Honey had a tough time banding a Limo sired calf with a super short scrotal neck...took him about three tries to get both nuts into the sac.</p><p></p><p>About two weeks later the poor calf's scrotam sloughed off, but not the testes.... had to take him to the vet to have a bit of cutting and sewing done.</p><p></p><p>The vet said that because the band had been stretched so many times during the application, that it had lost enough elasticity to be able to effectively castrate, plus with the scrotal length being so short so the band was probably only on half the testes and not above them.</p><p></p><p>Still, all told and done, not bad luck with only 1 screw-up out of nearly a thousand calves. Go banders!</p><p></p><p>Take care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CattleAnnie, post: 174450, member: 220"] Just an add on here. If you don't get both nuts in the band the first time, I'd highly advise putting a new band onto the bander. The only wreck we've ever had banding was once when Honey had a tough time banding a Limo sired calf with a super short scrotal neck...took him about three tries to get both nuts into the sac. About two weeks later the poor calf's scrotam sloughed off, but not the testes.... had to take him to the vet to have a bit of cutting and sewing done. The vet said that because the band had been stretched so many times during the application, that it had lost enough elasticity to be able to effectively castrate, plus with the scrotal length being so short so the band was probably only on half the testes and not above them. Still, all told and done, not bad luck with only 1 screw-up out of nearly a thousand calves. Go banders! Take care. [/QUOTE]
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