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carl reitnauer

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I have a 3 plus year old billy that needs to lose his jewels. Is a constrictor band the best? i didm't get to sell him in Ramadan and would like to butcher him in 90 days.
 
Strongly recommend you have a vet do it surgically on a marure animal. Even then there is some risk of loosing animal. Banding is not a good idea at maturity.
 
I don't see much difference between castrating a mature male goat vs a 300# calf of which I performed that same surgery on several head in my younger days.
 
You can band him but give him a tetanus shot if you do, I routinely band and cut calves and yearlings up to 800 pounds. Cutting him is always the best way in my view, just keep the flies off of him.
 
I'm not sure why you would even waste the time to do it now, what is the up side of it? I castrated some ram lambs at 4 months and they were slow to come around, I should have taken the discount at the sale barn, I would have been ahead. If you are dead set on it though this is what I would use. (Burdizzo)
This is what I would use.
 
don't go the clamp route, have him cut....i had a 3 yr. old clamped and had lot's of trouble. just to much meat in there to be resorbed by there body....
 
I would think that in 90 days a three year old buck would still be pretty gamey tasting to me. IF I have to do a larger/mature animal I band it and then cut both. The band helps stop the bleeding but will slide off after awhile with no testicles to catch on.
 

Don't use the bands. Goats are highly susceptible to tetanus and septicemia. Banding is best done as young as possible. Otherwise get a vet to do it surgically or you will have a dead goat 9 times out of 10. And it's an ugly death too.
 
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