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<blockquote data-quote="Lannie" data-source="post: 1819900" data-attributes="member: 8202"><p>Yeah, he was nursing when I did it. He was thinking about NOTHING but milk at the moment, so I figured it was a good time. He didn't pay any attention to me fiddling around behind him until the rubber band and the tool's teeth snapped shut on him, THEN he noticed, LOL! Well, anyway, it's an expensive lesson, maybe in dollars and maybe just in stress, but expensive nevertheless. IF I try banding again, I know now I should roll the band off the teeth, not just let it snap shut, and preferably, have a helper so I can use both hands to get the band off properly.</p><p></p><p>And by the way, when I measure the calves (or cows) for weight, I use the heart girth times the heart girth times the length, divided by 300. It's usually pretty accurate. Joe's heart girth is 50 inches and his length is 42. I think that accounts for "fat" or anyway the bulk of the animal, being the length will be a bit longer on a fatter calf. It's pretty close, considering I don't have access to a scale, and when we take someone to the sale barn and they DO get weighed, it's usually within 25 pounds or so of my "taped" estimate. I use a dairy/beef weight tape, but only because it's long enough, and it's made of Tyvek, so aside from one end being chewed off by one of the dogs, it works great and is mostly indestructible. Mostly. (It was the far end of the tape that was chewed, thankfully. Now I keep that tape in a cabinet in the barn with a door that closes.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lannie, post: 1819900, member: 8202"] Yeah, he was nursing when I did it. He was thinking about NOTHING but milk at the moment, so I figured it was a good time. He didn't pay any attention to me fiddling around behind him until the rubber band and the tool's teeth snapped shut on him, THEN he noticed, LOL! Well, anyway, it's an expensive lesson, maybe in dollars and maybe just in stress, but expensive nevertheless. IF I try banding again, I know now I should roll the band off the teeth, not just let it snap shut, and preferably, have a helper so I can use both hands to get the band off properly. And by the way, when I measure the calves (or cows) for weight, I use the heart girth times the heart girth times the length, divided by 300. It's usually pretty accurate. Joe's heart girth is 50 inches and his length is 42. I think that accounts for "fat" or anyway the bulk of the animal, being the length will be a bit longer on a fatter calf. It's pretty close, considering I don't have access to a scale, and when we take someone to the sale barn and they DO get weighed, it's usually within 25 pounds or so of my "taped" estimate. I use a dairy/beef weight tape, but only because it's long enough, and it's made of Tyvek, so aside from one end being chewed off by one of the dogs, it works great and is mostly indestructible. Mostly. (It was the far end of the tape that was chewed, thankfully. Now I keep that tape in a cabinet in the barn with a door that closes.) [/QUOTE]
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