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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1362167" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>Since I have had a fair amount of experience using the callicrate bander, I think I am justified in saying that in a week the calf will act fine. Now, we don't band them and pull them off the cow all at the same time; but in either case, if the calf is banded and stays with the cow, he will be acting like nothing ever happened in less than a week. If the calf is already weaned and used to coming into a feed bunk, and you band him, he will be back to acting normal in just a couple of days. They don't drop weight unless they don't eat. Been there, done that many times. I have seen the calves come to the feeder the next day and eat like normal. We calve out 75-100 both spring and fall and have used the bander a lot. If the bander is used properly, the recovery time is VERY SHORT and that is one of the things that is true about all the advertisement. I didn't really believe it until we used it and now I am a total convert. In the warmer months, we will cut the sack off after a week since it will get pretty rank, but in the cooler months we just let it fall off whenever unless we are going to ship them soon. We don't do all the calves this way since some of the pastures don't have working pens, some get banded as babies, but when we can we try to hold off and band when they have a little growth from natural testosterone.</p><p>We bought 10 "steers" last year and found 2 bulls in the bunch. Banded them and ran them back through the chute 5 days later, the sacks felt cold so no circulation, they were all coming in to eat everyday, and they went to pasture and the 2 that were bulls weighed nearly 30 lbs more than the others when we sold them, they were sorted off the rest due to the little bit bigger size. One other was shorter and he sold separate too. That was with a small group of bought calves that we didn't know anything about, just a spec group.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1362167, member: 25884"] Since I have had a fair amount of experience using the callicrate bander, I think I am justified in saying that in a week the calf will act fine. Now, we don't band them and pull them off the cow all at the same time; but in either case, if the calf is banded and stays with the cow, he will be acting like nothing ever happened in less than a week. If the calf is already weaned and used to coming into a feed bunk, and you band him, he will be back to acting normal in just a couple of days. They don't drop weight unless they don't eat. Been there, done that many times. I have seen the calves come to the feeder the next day and eat like normal. We calve out 75-100 both spring and fall and have used the bander a lot. If the bander is used properly, the recovery time is VERY SHORT and that is one of the things that is true about all the advertisement. I didn't really believe it until we used it and now I am a total convert. In the warmer months, we will cut the sack off after a week since it will get pretty rank, but in the cooler months we just let it fall off whenever unless we are going to ship them soon. We don't do all the calves this way since some of the pastures don't have working pens, some get banded as babies, but when we can we try to hold off and band when they have a little growth from natural testosterone. We bought 10 "steers" last year and found 2 bulls in the bunch. Banded them and ran them back through the chute 5 days later, the sacks felt cold so no circulation, they were all coming in to eat everyday, and they went to pasture and the 2 that were bulls weighed nearly 30 lbs more than the others when we sold them, they were sorted off the rest due to the little bit bigger size. One other was shorter and he sold separate too. That was with a small group of bought calves that we didn't know anything about, just a spec group. [/QUOTE]
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