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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1829472" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I grew up cutting the bottom of the scrotum off, pulling the testicles out until the cord broke. If little 'strings' were hanging, I wrapped them around my finger and pulled until they broke. </p><p>When I was a 3rd year veterinary student, I found one of our own steers, which I had knife-cut 2 weeks earlier, 'sawhorsed' out in the pasture with tetanus. IDK if 8- or 9-way clostridial bacterin/toxoids, containing tetanus toxoid, were available then, but I'm pretty sure my dad & uncle bought the cheapest stuff they could find. </p><p>After that event, I preferred emasculating them with the Burdizzo, and continued that in my own herd for the next 40 years. If I had clients who wanted theirs knife-cut, I did them that way, but I'd say well over 75% of bulls I've 'castrated' in my day were done with a Burdizzo... whether they were newborns (I have a 9" model) or 500-pounders (19" model) .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1829472, member: 12607"] I grew up cutting the bottom of the scrotum off, pulling the testicles out until the cord broke. If little 'strings' were hanging, I wrapped them around my finger and pulled until they broke. When I was a 3rd year veterinary student, I found one of our own steers, which I had knife-cut 2 weeks earlier, 'sawhorsed' out in the pasture with tetanus. IDK if 8- or 9-way clostridial bacterin/toxoids, containing tetanus toxoid, were available then, but I'm pretty sure my dad & uncle bought the cheapest stuff they could find. After that event, I preferred emasculating them with the Burdizzo, and continued that in my own herd for the next 40 years. If I had clients who wanted theirs knife-cut, I did them that way, but I'd say well over 75% of bulls I've 'castrated' in my day were done with a Burdizzo... whether they were newborns (I have a 9" model) or 500-pounders (19" model) . [/QUOTE]
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