I am getting ready to band my three bucklings and have been reading a lot about administering a tetanus toxoid. I am raising organically and wonder if there is anything else that can be used to stay organic or if I should just skip the tetanus toxoid.
Thanks.
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If it were me, I would band him, or separate them. The first week my little guy was banded he was still acting very "bucky". It makes me uncomfortable to band them when they are too big. Then I would have him castrated by a vet.
Ouch. That means they got pregnant when they were Ginger's age. So young. Actually, the way Ginger was acting today, I wondered if she could be in heat but discounted that since she is not quite five months old.
You didn't say differently so I presume all went well with their births.
Marin Waddell said:
We had a couple of doelings kid at 9.5 months this spring (the buck got into their pen), so I can vouch for the fact that they can go into season at 4.5 months.
I banded mine at 8 1/2 weeks. I have been told by a couple breeders in the area that after 10 weeks of age they wont band anymore. At that point they have to be cut (usually by a vet), use a Burdizzo to castrate. Believe me he was very interested in the ladies at 8-9 weeks! Now he is doing great, and a lot less um....frisky :)
Don't worry about it today, NO! Just get your info together and decide when you want to do it and how. I can't say cause I haven't done any yet. I have one here that is 10 weeks and still with my herd. His biggest interest seems to be in walking through the fence and playing on our side! His sister is heavier and has a fatter belly, so she doesn't come through, not to mention she is a big old momma's girl and won't hardly budge from her side, or udder! I am pretty sure he ain't interested in nothing else right now. I have my eye on my first possible blue eyed buck so I may have him a pen mate soon, since I am not going to put him with my big bucks and my one horned doe right now.
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I have helped band a couple bucklings, including our own. At first I was completely against it. However, after watching them and seeing how fast they "recover", it's not as bad as I had thought. My little guy has been banded for three days now, and he is every bit a stinker that he was before! I did not do the antitox vac before banding him however, they did get their CDT vac at 4 and 8 weeks. My mentor had banded many, many bucklings without the antitox vac with no problems. Just watch them and they will be fine. :)
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Horses, cattle and people are more suceptiable to getting tetanus. Tetanus is a bacteria that is in the ground and is worldwide, but not in all areas. The tetanus organism can live in a non-oxygen environment. Contaminated deep puncture wounds are a good environment for tetanus to grow. When horses are castrated, vets use an open cut method. The wound is not sewn up and left open to drain to allow outside air to circulate around the surgical area thus its less likely of getting tetanus. We have had horses castrated at our farm by the vet and we wether our bucklings the same way but do it ourselves. Some vets also prefer this same method on young goat kids. Plus there is no doubt what so ever if it took or not......lol! Flies, some may ask, what about flies? We keep the boys in with their moms in separate clean pens for about 4 days, maybe longer, until the wound starts to crust over. We have done about 12 kids this way the past two years with no problems and no tetanus shots and they are up and bouncing around the next day, and if done right, there is hardly any blood, and of course we are well aware of the risk, just our preferred method.
Never heard of that myself. Very interesting.
Isn't the risk of tetanus higher if horses (or more specifically horse manure) are around? That was what I was told when I was growing up, why we had to keep our own shots current.
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