Elastrator Band Dehorning GRAPHIC New pics pg 10

[miron28]

wow now that is off what do you do with the horn? throw it out

 

[helmstead]

My DH wants to mount it on a plaque...

 

[hcammack]

thats so funny glad you found a way to get rid of that funny horn. so she has a whole in her head? will it heal over with skin?

Henry

 

[helmstead]

Yes, the holes will close over in time. It's really creepy, honestly, to be able to see into her sinus.

 

[hcammack]

thats what I was thinking sounds creepy and dangerous I am glad they will close

 

[EmmyGirl]

Hey, a picture of Becky's horn! (I haven't checked in on her progress in a few days!) It looks like it came off nice and clean! I'm hoping that green thing is the elastrator band!?

 

[helmstead]

Yup, that's the band. Still waiting on the half horn to come off...my guess is that because it's shorter, there isn't as much weight to it helping it fold over.

 

[MissPrissy]

Katy, how old is the goat you banded?

Did the horn fall off or did she help it along and knock it off?

I have a doe that was badly disbudded. She has a short horn that she often breaks off from rubbing her head hard against the trees. It leaves a bloody wound that frightens me to no end but seems not to bother much. And yes it does grow back.

 

[helmstead]

She'll be 5 in February, if I remember right.

This horn fell off on its own - it folded backwards, then got all wiggly and detatched. Her other horn she managed to damage a couple weeks ago butting another doe and it bled for a couple hours, but it didn't seem to help it come off (obviously as it's still on there).

Scurs are trickier to band, I think. Worth a try though. PM me if you'd like, I'd rather not get into details here. I have a buck with flat scurs (no more than 1" tall, crecent shaped). He rubs his scurs off on the fence all the time, and they leave an oozy stump that I have to treat with antibiotic ointment. The man that taught me to disbud said I could try to burn the stumps with the calf tip of my iron...but that it might not work, so I decided not to try it.

 

[Jenlyn9483]

Wow ur brave..an open hole in my goats head would kinda freak me out. I must get used to these types of thing though as I am going to school to be a Vet Assistant, and hopefully a tech from there. My doe is Pregnant right now, I think she may deliver around Xmas or beg of January. I'm not sure. I know she wasnt fat when I got her end of Sept but she is Getting round now. I didnt know that she was preg when I got her, but she obviously was.