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<blockquote data-quote="Andyva" data-source="post: 1118482" data-attributes="member: 1022"><p>Maybe the buyer has been burned on a load of stags. I saw a bunch come off a place that had 9 stags out of 13 banded calves. I helped work them when the vet fixed them. Two of the 9 had both testicles. If you use a knife, and can count to anything near two, you will never get docked on a stag. Either bands can break off, the testicle squeezes through, or people don't know what they are doing, but banded calves will have stags in them. A stag is a banded calf with a testicle up in it's belly, since it no longer has a scrotum. Usually won't throw calves, but will grow and act, just like a bull. At least with a bull, the buyer has an option of cutting them, stags require a vet, 'cause you have to cut their belly open. If you do band, buy new bands every once and a while. Dry rotted bands are the usual problem. People just wadding a bunch of scrotum up in there and letting go is another problem. My contention has always been, that I can cut quicker than I can band. You make a cut, and the calf kicks, the cut is done. With the band, every time he kicks, you start over, if you are doing it right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andyva, post: 1118482, member: 1022"] Maybe the buyer has been burned on a load of stags. I saw a bunch come off a place that had 9 stags out of 13 banded calves. I helped work them when the vet fixed them. Two of the 9 had both testicles. If you use a knife, and can count to anything near two, you will never get docked on a stag. Either bands can break off, the testicle squeezes through, or people don't know what they are doing, but banded calves will have stags in them. A stag is a banded calf with a testicle up in it's belly, since it no longer has a scrotum. Usually won't throw calves, but will grow and act, just like a bull. At least with a bull, the buyer has an option of cutting them, stags require a vet, 'cause you have to cut their belly open. If you do band, buy new bands every once and a while. Dry rotted bands are the usual problem. People just wadding a bunch of scrotum up in there and letting go is another problem. My contention has always been, that I can cut quicker than I can band. You make a cut, and the calf kicks, the cut is done. With the band, every time he kicks, you start over, if you are doing it right. [/QUOTE]
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