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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 933714" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Your description makes me wonder - were these calves banded, or 'clamped' (with a Burdizzo emasculatome)?</p><p>I do all of mine with the Burdizzo - it crimps the spermatic cords, causing damage to the cells lining the vessels and vas deferens, resulting in obstruction due to scarring, and the testicles atrophy. Scrotum remains - though if you do 'em young, there's not much there.</p><p>I have knife-cut calves that were 'clamped' earlier, and there will be small residual 'testicles, but they're mostly scar tissue.</p><p></p><p>Yes, if someone 'bands' incorrectly, pushing the testicles up above the band, there's less likelihood that the testicles will be able to produce normal sperm, due to inability to properly thermoregulate - but I wouldn't count on it rendering them totally infertile - and they'll certainly still be a 'bull'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 933714, member: 12607"] Your description makes me wonder - were these calves banded, or 'clamped' (with a Burdizzo emasculatome)? I do all of mine with the Burdizzo - it crimps the spermatic cords, causing damage to the cells lining the vessels and vas deferens, resulting in obstruction due to scarring, and the testicles atrophy. Scrotum remains - though if you do 'em young, there's not much there. I have knife-cut calves that were 'clamped' earlier, and there will be small residual 'testicles, but they're mostly scar tissue. Yes, if someone 'bands' incorrectly, pushing the testicles up above the band, there's less likelihood that the testicles will be able to produce normal sperm, due to inability to properly thermoregulate - but I wouldn't count on it rendering them totally infertile - and they'll certainly still be a 'bull'. [/QUOTE]
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