Banding a Goats Horn?

[mgibbzzz]

We've nevered banded, only burned with disbudding when they are small kids. If they are older, we leave them alone. We only disbud if buyer prefers, or if it is a fair kid that it is required.

 

[Fancy228]

I've done it, and I'll do it again if I have a goat that wasn't disbudded and I want the horns removed. I did a two month old buck just a few weeks ago. The horns are tender and after you get the band on you don't want to touch them at all, if they are knocked off early they can bleed pretty bad. Generally you go out one morning and the horn will just be gone, or in one case it just hung there for a week or so, no blood or anything. The biggest thing is getting the band low enough.

Can you band them with success even though their horns are still growing?