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Cut 'em or Band 'em?
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<blockquote data-quote="randiliana" data-source="post: 239081" data-attributes="member: 2308"><p>We used to cut them too, but one year we had to band a bunch of them because they were going on the truck (to pasture) the next day. The ones that were banded and these were up to 3 months old didn't lay around feeling sorry for themselves nearly as much as the ones that were cut. As well, we had a couple calves get infected and one die, when they were cut, and have never had that problem with the bands. Hubby figured he could have bought a lot of bands for the money we would have gotten out of him had he lived.</p><p></p><p>As for size, as long as the band goes over them it will work. We did one at 6 months of age (which isn't saying much for his development ;-) ) and he was around 600 lbs. Usually though I would think 3-4 months would be tops for the little bands anyways.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="randiliana, post: 239081, member: 2308"] We used to cut them too, but one year we had to band a bunch of them because they were going on the truck (to pasture) the next day. The ones that were banded and these were up to 3 months old didn't lay around feeling sorry for themselves nearly as much as the ones that were cut. As well, we had a couple calves get infected and one die, when they were cut, and have never had that problem with the bands. Hubby figured he could have bought a lot of bands for the money we would have gotten out of him had he lived. As for size, as long as the band goes over them it will work. We did one at 6 months of age (which isn't saying much for his development ;-) ) and he was around 600 lbs. Usually though I would think 3-4 months would be tops for the little bands anyways. [/QUOTE]
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