Thank you so much for showing the detailed steps. Most people would chicken out of showing it. But it is so important that people see what is involved if they are going to do it themselves.
Thanks Pete and Hillary. It not an easy think to do but absolutely necessary. I agree with you that its best to get all three over with by day 3 so it is less traumatic in the long run.
Maybe now the next time we order steak we'll all remember what it took to get that steak onto our plates. Much respect & hopefully more support for the work you do. FARMING & RANCHING.
Well Pete im a vegetarian, BUT no wait for it i think you treat your animals lovely they seem to have a nice life from beginning to end. D from the UK.
This looks to be the most humane and tolerable options for the calf when it comes to dehorning and castration. I agree with doing it as young as possible, too.
Every plant and animal on this planet was put here for our use. This is actually how we are meant to live... Raising our own animals, growing our own crops, etc. This fine farmer said he does it because it's necessary. If you wAnt to provide him with money etc to live, great! I'm sure he'll give up raising meat animals. Otherwise please keep your opinion to yourself. Did you know in order for food to be grown, no animals can live in the same area? That means in order to grow your lettuce, first all the trees in an area need to be cleared. Good riddance birds. Then they destroy any ground squirrels rabbits gophers etc living there. Then they will and fertilize and plant your gmo crops that kill the bees that pollinate them because glyphosate, but at least you get your baby spinach. Vegans are responsible for the deaths of thousands of animals every year. They're murdered to keep them off your lettuce. Stop preaching at people making an honest living and actually helping the environment.
@@amyfu2047 How is it 'necessary' to do this when we know we can be perfectly healthy on a plant based diet? When your 'opinion' involves abusing and exploiting animals, don't be surprised when others come at you. Just like if someone had the opinion 'child abuse is ethical', you'd probably go at them. This is the crucial point you are forgetting; Over 70% of the crops we currently grow go to feed animals, NOT humans, so if you really wanted to reduce insect/rodent deaths, then you should stop eating animals. A meat diet requires around 10 times more crops, due to the crops used to raise livestock. Crop deaths obviously still do happen, but not anywhere near as much as you would think. Compare this against the fact that 2 billion animals are murdered every single week, intentionally. A certain amount of accidental deaths have to happen in order for society to function. For example, we don’t avoid driving because there is a chance of accidental deaths. But what you’re basically saying is that accidental deaths happen on the road, therefore intentionally running people over is also fine. Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, habitat destruction and wildlife loss. Mainly because of the amount of land we have to clear in order to graze the 70 billion livestock animals we have on the planet. And the space we need to grow food for them all. Look at all the baron lifeless fields around you! Pretty much all for animal agriculture. Finally, I grow tonnes of food myself, never had to kill one animal, and my farm is a lot healthier than most farms I've seen!
Pete, I know this is an older video but wanted to thank you for it. Today I successfully castrated my first dexter calf and I learned all I needed from this video. Watched it 4 or 5 times. Thanks for the great information!
I'm a city boy and oh boy! seeing the castration process just made me hurt! I really can't judge because I know this is a process to just about anything. I'm glad you've taken all consideration when doing that procedure. I'm never getting a vasectomy. lol
Do you not know how a vasectomy works or are you just joking lmao. Your testicles aren’t removed in that procedure and there is a high success’s rate in reversing them within the first 10 years of it being done
Hey Pete, thanks for all the effort you put into these videos. I was raised in the city and am aspiring to own my own small farm one day (likely cattle, chickens, goats). This info is invaluable… I can’t stop watching your videos! You have a new subscriber right here 💪🏻
I thought Hmmm... maybe I won't watch that one, no, no, Doug don't be a snowflake! Now I need to go reflect a bit before I decide if it was a good idea! Poor little bull... lol
This is very wholesome content really enjoying the editing and dad jokes...but simply put more people should and need to know what goes into our food systems. It can be done in either the respectful way or the industrial way.
I loved how you took me through every step...with wats recommended by trained personnel..... and also appreciate the reason for every practice .it gives me a wider range of knowledge.
Pete I find your videos very informative, and to the point, this one is no different. Always wondered about the de-horning, and now I know. Although I have seen castrations in videos a number of times, of various different methods. I don't think a guy can ever stop from the bending a bit and saying a few choice words, and saving his own from the same fake. Yes, even at close to 60 years old, i still cringe, even though they do not mean as much to me as they once did.. LOL Keep up the good videos Take care, and safe in these covid19 times. Mitch
Thanks Pete. I know you took a little static for this video, I'm sure. I appreciate knowing everything that goes into taking care of animals on a farm.
Thanks for the video Pete. Can you explain why the mom has horns since you chose to de-horn. Also I thought heifers didn’t have horns, only bulls. Thanks again!
We’ve always just banded our bull calves, and my family has been doing it that way for about 75 years with no complications. That’s just the way we like to do it, but it was really cool to see this method used, as I’ve never actually had a visual of it being done before. Thanks for this video, it was very interesting and informative!
Friends of ours acquired a bull who was banded. Turns out, one of his testicles didn't castrate. He was a NASTY piece of work on dispatch day and nearly knocked a trailer over. The method you use is thorough! No point in the trauma of the ordeal if the intended results aren't achieved.
I'm glad you made this video and showed the steps involved. I believe your right about when to do this procedure. Your calves and the herd are lucky that you care so much about them.
Amazing mama let you drop her calf. I grew up on a dairy farm. I remember picking up calves in the pasture when I was around 12 with mama breathing down my neck the whole way to the barn.
Ya not as a bad as rank desert cattle man you try and take their babies they gonna run you down and teach you something. Its always funny when it's the new guy and he doesnt realise what's about to happen. Quick feet quick feet 😂😂😂
Great video, thanks. Sorry, I do not agree with your vet's suggestion of not using lidocaine for castration. Blocking the spermatic cord using 3-4 ml of 2% lidocaine hydrochloride will definitely reduce the pain during castration. Even intratesticular injection of lidocaine (1 mL/testicle) using a fine needle (25 G) will reduce pain but need to wait for at least 5-10 minutes before castration.
Well they cut baby foreskin without lidocaine and they say sugar helps pain relief in babies. Best thing probebly is what he's doing if it needs to be done. Baby is little, goes back to mom and milk and it will forget about it.
I love the *notion* of grazing a small herd of cattle, but it's these kinds of necessary tasks that I KNOW I won't have the stomach for that tells me that it's best left as a daydream. 🤢 Unless I can pay someone else to handle the nuts and bolts for me... 💸
On my grandfathers farmstead down Bayou DuLarge Louisiana -he didn’t bother with castration for dehorning -his herd was usually about one bull and 6 or 7 milk cows-with 13 children they needed a lot of milk -we would slaughter them on the farm-later in the early 60s we would just call the slaughter house and they would send a trailer for the calves he wanted to slaughter-as kids grew up and had their own families it was like a celebration when a calf was slaughtered -always in late fall -good times on the bayou
So using the rubber bands is literally the most INHUMANE Option!(my opinion only). Cutting is the cleanest and best bet for the calf or bull etc. doesn’t matter what flavor. If some ask why? Well just go look at farms where rubber bands are used. You will see this giant wounds that smell like a dead animal. Necrotic tissue. I can’t tell you how many ive see maggots eating lunch around the rubber band. So if anyone needs an example on why cutting is the most humane
Added benefit, Rocky Mtn oysters. I remember the first time I helped an uncle castrate calves, at about 5 months. He popped them off and without warning handed them to me, saying, dinner. If prepared correctly, deveined and pounded flat, then breaded and fried, they have a good flavor and the consistency of chicken fried steak.
Pete....thanks for giving us the step-by-step on the dehorning and castration procedure. Very helpful. Really appreciate the depth of your explanations. Thanks.
Just the right thing to do,these unavoidable procedures on a calf are better and best done as early in calf’s life as possible and practical. Healing will be fast in these early days. And the trauma and the stress is soon forgotten by fast growing bull as a thing of the past, never to recur in the rest of his life. Doing it yourself has the advantage of keeping you well practiced and deft at it. No one else can do it more feelingly for your own animal. Pretty cool 😎
Thank you for making this video. We've just got our first small dexter herd and have 5 calves that we need to do this with. I think I will call the vet to help me. Really tough thing to do but you have to do it for the animals and your safety. One of those parts of farming that folks don't think about much but are very real to the farmer! (and obviously the poor calves)
I’m glad u guys made this video u care about ur animals so much obviously having ur balls cut off was painful to watch I couldn’t breathe😭🤣🤣🤣but atleast u guys do this when there very young and take the horns out early instead of cutting them off when there older this was so much nicer than any other one I’ve seen
Good video and good explanation. I feel that you have chosen the lowest stress and best metgod for the cattle. This is much more humane than the way we did it when i was going up! We used to wait until fall when fly season was over and cut the horns out with a scoop cutter then pull leaking blood vessels with needle nose pliers. It was gruesome and traumatic. When I started on my own I chose to raise polled cattle so I didn't have to go through this.
i think because it was a female. males are lot more agressive and you dont want your uncastrated bull with horns forcing the rest of the herd into submission, he would challenge other cows with horns and you want atleast one cow in the herd to have horns because its promoting higher status of the cow. it will be the herd leader so other cows will follow him/her around
Couple of questions. First, I've seen videos where the farms use a paste that inhibits horn growth. To me, that seems less traumatic both for the animal and the farmer. Are you aware of this method? If so, why did you choose the burning method over the paste? Second, why does the featured calf's mom have horns?
Maybe next time ice it first than use a sharp blade they use for surgery instead of scissors. I wanted to raise cattle but after watching this video, I can't do it.
That’s a very bad day for the little dude, well you guys did a very good job considering the nature of it. Thanks for be as humane as possible. God bless.
Pete I have been watching your videos for a while now and I am very interested in raising Dexter cattle for myself and also a few pigs. Your videos are very informative and I appreciate them.
Such a great job. Definitely not the romantic part of farming. I used to raise sheep and cutting off the lambs tails was always a challenge. Like you, I did it soon after birth because they were impossible to catch after the first week. As always, great job with the video! Thank you. -Ed
i added this second bad day to my farm story as well vs the one bad day most cattle farmers talk about. it seems really bad, but like my vet pointed out to me the calves almost always come back to the head gate area after they are finished so it's probably not as traumatic as we think it is.
Thank you for that, wish I had pressed in for my late husband to do this castrating business but he didn't have nerves for that kinda work. Now I have one bull calf that is a few weeks old,
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Thank you so much for showing the detailed steps. Most people would chicken out of showing it. But it is so important that people see what is involved if they are going to do it themselves.
I will NEVER complain about having a bad day again.
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Thank you for being so caring about the pain level and comfort of the little ones in your care. Big heart you have🙏❤️🙏
Thanks Pete and Hillary. It not an easy think to do but absolutely necessary. I agree with you that its best to get all three over with by day 3 so it is less traumatic in the long run.
I'm a citygirl and can see how gentle you are
good job team!
He literally cut his scrotum open with scissors and ripped out his testicles. Are you on fucking crack?
Pete, I admire your honesty treating young calves is far better than waiting past 3 months.
Thanks for your direct approach to getting the job done
Maybe now the next time we order steak we'll all remember what it took to get that steak onto our plates. Much respect & hopefully more support for the work you do. FARMING & RANCHING.
Well Pete im a vegetarian, BUT no wait for it i think you treat your animals lovely they seem to have a nice life from beginning to end. D from the UK.
Jesus that castration was serious, not enough to put me off my steak but Jesus, my ikea scissors wouldn't be upto the job
You sound terrified! Can’t blame you, I was too.
Man that was BRUTAL. Sure wouldn't want a day like that!
This looks to be the most humane and tolerable options for the calf when it comes to dehorning and castration. I agree with doing it as young as possible, too.
You are a very sick individual.
Every plant and animal on this planet was put here for our use. This is actually how we are meant to live... Raising our own animals, growing our own crops, etc. This fine farmer said he does it because it's necessary. If you wAnt to provide him with money etc to live, great! I'm sure he'll give up raising meat animals. Otherwise please keep your opinion to yourself.
Did you know in order for food to be grown, no animals can live in the same area? That means in order to grow your lettuce, first all the trees in an area need to be cleared. Good riddance birds. Then they destroy any ground squirrels rabbits gophers etc living there. Then they will and fertilize and plant your gmo crops that kill the bees that pollinate them because glyphosate, but at least you get your baby spinach.
Vegans are responsible for the deaths of thousands of animals every year. They're murdered to keep them off your lettuce.
Stop preaching at people making an honest living and actually helping the environment.
@@amyfu2047 How is it 'necessary' to do this when we know we can be perfectly healthy on a plant based diet?
When your 'opinion' involves abusing and exploiting animals, don't be surprised when others come at you. Just like if someone had the opinion 'child abuse is ethical', you'd probably go at them.
This is the crucial point you are forgetting; Over 70% of the crops we currently grow go to feed animals, NOT humans, so if you really wanted to reduce insect/rodent deaths, then you should stop eating animals. A meat diet requires around 10 times more crops, due to the crops used to raise livestock.
Crop deaths obviously still do happen, but not anywhere near as much as you would think. Compare this against the fact that 2 billion animals are murdered every single week, intentionally.
A certain amount of accidental deaths have to happen in order for society to function. For example, we don’t avoid driving because there is a chance of accidental deaths. But what you’re basically saying is that accidental deaths happen on the road, therefore intentionally running people over is also fine.
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, habitat destruction and wildlife loss. Mainly because of the amount of land we have to clear in order to graze the 70 billion livestock animals we have on the planet. And the space we need to grow food for them all. Look at all the baron lifeless fields around you! Pretty much all for animal agriculture.
Finally, I grow tonnes of food myself, never had to kill one animal, and my farm is a lot healthier than most farms I've seen!
I have an honest question, is there any other way to do the castration? I just find it hard that the calf is awake during this process.
@@maureenpleitez1022 How about just not do it at all. Are you people this evil? It's time to stop killing, mutilating and exploiting animals.
Pete, I know this is an older video but wanted to thank you for it. Today I successfully castrated my first dexter calf and I learned all I needed from this video. Watched it 4 or 5 times. Thanks for the great information!
how was the calf after? thinking of using this method on my new bull calf.
@@katelyndahlin1086 no issues. All good.
I'm a city boy and oh boy! seeing the castration process just made me hurt! I really can't judge because I know this is a process to just about anything. I'm glad you've taken all consideration when doing that procedure. I'm never getting a vasectomy. lol
Do you not know how a vasectomy works or are you just joking lmao. Your testicles aren’t removed in that procedure and there is a high success’s rate in reversing them within the first 10 years of it being done
I have cut alot of bulls in my life and have alot more yet to do hopefully... when I was young I held the tails and dad ran the knife or clamps...
Hey Pete, thanks for all the effort you put into these videos. I was raised in the city and am aspiring to own my own small farm one day (likely cattle, chickens, goats). This info is invaluable… I can’t stop watching your videos! You have a new subscriber right here 💪🏻
I thought Hmmm... maybe I won't watch that one, no, no, Doug don't be a snowflake! Now I need to go reflect a bit before I decide if it was a good idea! Poor little bull... lol
I don't know if I would have the heart or nerve to perform those necessary tasks. Thank you for another tactful and informative video.
You think that’s bad? Try being on the... rear end of artificial insemination.
I have cattle and I tried to do all 3. Ended up doing only 1 out of the 3. Wayyyyyy tougher than it looks.
Why are they necessary?
I just stopped eating steer/heifer/veal because I couldn't in all honesty do this work my grandfather did for a living.
We are thinking about getting some cows, then I watched this, omg, someone else will be doing that
Why are some cattle allowed to keep their horns? Mom had her horns.
They mentioned in a few videos that those are cattle that they got (I believe) in the first few years of the farm and they already had horns.
This is very wholesome content really enjoying the editing and dad jokes...but simply put more people should and need to know what goes into our food systems. It can be done in either the respectful way or the industrial way.
We DID it! First time castrating and it went really well. Thank you so much Pete and Hillary!
I loved how you took me through every step...with wats recommended by trained personnel..... and also appreciate the reason for every practice .it gives me a wider range of knowledge.
I am glad you numb the horn buds. Most dairy farms are brutal to the calves and use nothing for pain.
the scissor idea is smart. Wish I could cut my pigs that way. Because of their anatomy I don’t think it would work. Good info.
Hard video to watch. You’re a good man though, you can tell you don’t get any joy out of it. Thanks for sharing.
Out of curiosity, why does mom have horns? None of the others do.
This makes being thankful for our food much more apparent.
As usual, just a superb video FILLED with stuff a City Boy like me just never knew. BRAVO!
Pete
I find your videos very informative, and to the point, this one is no different.
Always wondered about the de-horning, and now I know.
Although I have seen castrations in videos a number of times, of various different methods.
I don't think a guy can ever stop from the bending a bit and saying a few choice words, and saving his own from the same fake.
Yes, even at close to 60 years old, i still cringe, even though they do not mean as much to me as they once did.. LOL
Keep up the good videos
Take care, and safe in these covid19 times.
Mitch
Very informative, but I had to cross my legs as a reaction when the castration took place.
Thanks Pete. I know you took a little static for this video, I'm sure. I appreciate knowing everything that goes into taking care of animals on a farm.
Thanks for the video Pete. Can you explain why the mom has horns since you chose to de-horn. Also I thought heifers didn’t have horns, only bulls. Thanks again!
Don't presume its gender...maybe its trans ;)
We’ve always just banded our bull calves, and my family has been doing it that way for about 75 years with no complications. That’s just the way we like to do it, but it was really cool to see this method used, as I’ve never actually had a visual of it being done before. Thanks for this video, it was very interesting and informative!
Friends of ours acquired a bull who was banded. Turns out, one of his testicles didn't castrate. He was a NASTY piece of work on dispatch day and nearly knocked a trailer over. The method you use is thorough! No point in the trauma of the ordeal if the intended results aren't achieved.
I'm glad you made this video and showed the steps involved. I believe your right about when to do this procedure. Your calves and the herd are lucky that you care so much about them.
Thanks Larry!
Did any other guy watching this also unconsciously close their legs? Lol.
Dean Benedict YES!!!!
Amazing mama let you drop her calf. I grew up on a dairy farm. I remember picking up calves in the pasture when I was around 12 with mama breathing down my neck the whole way to the barn.
Ya not as a bad as rank desert cattle man you try and take their babies they gonna run you down and teach you something. Its always funny when it's the new guy and he doesnt realise what's about to happen. Quick feet quick feet 😂😂😂
Great video, thanks. Sorry, I do not agree with your vet's suggestion of not using lidocaine for castration. Blocking the spermatic cord using 3-4 ml of 2% lidocaine hydrochloride will definitely reduce the pain during castration. Even intratesticular injection of lidocaine (1 mL/testicle) using a fine needle (25 G) will reduce pain but need to wait for at least 5-10 minutes before castration.
I totally agree. There has to be a better and more humane way than what is done now.
Well they cut baby foreskin without lidocaine and they say sugar helps pain relief in babies. Best thing probebly is what he's doing if it needs to be done. Baby is little, goes back to mom and milk and it will forget about it.
This is done so quickly it's unnecessary
thanks bro and sister for ur video,good luck
I love the *notion* of grazing a small herd of cattle, but it's these kinds of necessary tasks that I KNOW I won't have the stomach for that tells me that it's best left as a daydream. 🤢 Unless I can pay someone else to handle the nuts and bolts for me... 💸
❤🎉Thankyou so very much for all the wisdom and Knowledge.
me, screaming at 6:10
Thank you for the detailed castration video. Watching all the steps taken by a successful small farm husband and wife team has been truly educational.
1 like=1 peayer for the calf and literally every other man in the world that felt this
On my grandfathers farmstead down Bayou DuLarge Louisiana -he didn’t bother with castration for dehorning -his herd was usually about one bull and 6 or 7 milk cows-with 13 children they needed a lot of milk -we would slaughter them on the farm-later in the early 60s we would just call the slaughter house and they would send a trailer for the calves he wanted to slaughter-as kids grew up and had their own families it was like a celebration when a calf was slaughtered -always in late fall -good times on the bayou
Hey Pete, I felt that when you castrated that little guy,😵🥴😵💫🤕 WOW 🤣Pete why does his Mom 526 still have her horns? 🐮🐄 Great Video Pete.
So using the rubber bands is literally the most INHUMANE Option!(my opinion only). Cutting is the cleanest and best bet for the calf or bull etc. doesn’t matter what flavor. If some ask why? Well just go look at farms where rubber bands are used. You will see this giant wounds that smell like a dead animal. Necrotic tissue. I can’t tell you how many ive see maggots eating lunch around the rubber band. So if anyone needs an example on why cutting is the most humane
I agree, plus sometimes the bands fall off prematurely
Added benefit, Rocky Mtn oysters. I remember the first time I helped an uncle castrate calves, at about 5 months. He popped them off and without warning handed them to me, saying, dinner. If prepared correctly, deveined and pounded flat, then breaded and fried, they have a good flavor and the consistency of chicken fried steak.
Pete....thanks for giving us the step-by-step on the dehorning and castration procedure. Very helpful. Really appreciate the depth of your explanations. Thanks.
You're welcome Geoff!
I’ve always been stuck in the big city, and have been fascinated farm life. Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
I'm learning so much from you two. Thank you!
You're welcome Theresa!
Great video very educational, that’s the same way I castrate our piglets
Just the right thing to do,these unavoidable procedures on a calf are better and best done as early in calf’s life as possible and practical.
Healing will be fast in these early days. And the trauma and the stress is soon forgotten by fast growing bull as a thing of the past, never to recur in the rest of his life.
Doing it yourself has the advantage of keeping you well practiced and deft at it. No one else can do it more feelingly for your own animal.
Pretty cool 😎
Thank you for making this video. We've just got our first small dexter herd and have 5 calves that we need to do this with. I think I will call the vet to help me. Really tough thing to do but you have to do it for the animals and your safety. One of those parts of farming that folks don't think about much but are very real to the farmer! (and obviously the poor calves)
Kudos to you for tackling a topic most would shy away from, but I bet you help some other farmers/homesteaders with this video! Excellent job!
Thank you Belding Hill Farms! I admit I was nervous about putting this one up, but it’s part of what we do.
Good information
Respect for your work ..eye opening ..also you n your team is loving n respectful to all the cattle’s n other livestock ...I feel relieved
Bom dia tudo bem linda a boiada❤❤❤
I’m glad u guys made this video u care about ur animals so much obviously having ur balls cut off was painful to watch I couldn’t breathe😭🤣🤣🤣but atleast u guys do this when there very young and take the horns out early instead of cutting them off when there older this was so much nicer than any other one I’ve seen
I love this channel so much. Everything is just so interesting and educational. Keep up the fantastic content to keep me in 🇬🇧 the UK entertained 👍🏼
I learn so much by watching these videos, and also I gain more respect for the protein on my plate and the farmer who put it there.
Good video and good explanation. I feel that you have chosen the lowest stress and best metgod for the cattle. This is much more humane than the way we did it when i was going up! We used to wait until fall when fly season was over and cut the horns out with a scoop cutter then pull leaking blood vessels with needle nose pliers. It was gruesome and traumatic. When I started on my own I chose to raise polled cattle so I didn't have to go through this.
Even being female, I felt it 😭
That's actually terrible
Me being a man my body just had a spasm and instantly P A I N
So these calves will be raised for MEAT.
Yes
Exceptionally informative and thank you for offering to share your knowledge, God bless.
Is there a reason why the mom still had horns?
i think because it was a female.
males are lot more agressive and you dont want your uncastrated bull with horns forcing the rest of the herd into submission, he would challenge other cows with horns
and you want atleast one cow in the herd to have horns because its promoting higher status of the cow.
it will be the herd leader so other cows will follow him/her around
Love it.
Great job.
I used to work on a ranch when I was young. Brings back some great memories.
Couple of questions. First, I've seen videos where the farms use a paste that inhibits horn growth. To me, that seems less traumatic both for the animal and the farmer. Are you aware of this method? If so, why did you choose the burning method over the paste?
Second, why does the featured calf's mom have horns?
Work around and for human or animal life is better than work around papier technology and money
I remenber helping my grandfather and uncle catch and castrate piglets when i was 10 or so years old. Very similar process.
Why are there still some with horns in your herd? Explain why not focus on polled traits to develop herd.
Thanks for your informative vids!
That's a cow they bought to start the herd, came with horns.
Dexters are a horned breed, he doesn't want crossbred calves
I know this an old video but does anyone know the make and model of the electric dehorner used ? Looking to upgrade. Thanks
Next life i want to be a part of your family!!!!❤️❤️
There is this EASE , HARMONY around you guys.
Thanks for sharing the process pete, very informative
Hey there, Wouldnt a Meloxicam 20 Injection be easier than tablets ? We use the injections rather than Tablets.
That was the nicest castration I've ever seen! Completely sold!
Maybe next time ice it first than use a sharp blade they use for surgery instead of scissors. I wanted to raise cattle but after watching this video, I can't do it.
That’s a very bad day for the little dude, well you guys did a very good job considering the nature of it. Thanks for be as humane as possible. God bless.
I remember the smell of the dehorning, we used to raise African Pygmy goats
What ever happened to the dehorn paste? But we used to use it on 60 to 100 calves a day. And do they still brand them?
Wow! Fascinating and a super presentation. I call that a hard day's work and I wont bitch about the price of a steak from now on.
I love that you numb them for dehorning
Pete I have been watching your videos for a while now and I am very interested in raising Dexter cattle for myself and also a few pigs. Your videos are very informative and I appreciate them.
If calls are not castrated does it effect flavor of the meat??,a friend of mine works with pigs and he says if not castrated it effects meat flavour
Yes, it does... dramatically
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Another excellent video dealing with a sensitive subject well done
Why did i felt that 💀
Me too
Such a great job. Definitely not the romantic part of farming. I used to raise sheep and cutting off the lambs tails was always a challenge. Like you, I did it soon after birth because they were impossible to catch after the first week. As always, great job with the video! Thank you. -Ed
Does he not find the castration sore and when lying down would birds not peck where his horn buds would be
i added this second bad day to my farm story as well vs the one bad day most cattle farmers talk about. it seems really bad, but like my vet pointed out to me the calves almost always come back to the head gate area after they are finished so it's probably not as traumatic as we think it is.
I’m a lady and watching that castration was difficult 😭
As a man , I can clearly understand the pain 😭😓.
Even if you're going to slaughter them , is it really necessary to do ?
Man that thing had a bad day shit next time I have one ill just think of this video dam just ripped his nuts out woo
I take it back. If reincarnation is real I want to come back as a tree.
Very good on explaining and demonstrating good job 👏
This looks barbaric.
But then I remember that I eat meat so - I have to accept that I am part of this chain of supply.
Getting it over and done with when they're young, is the best time.
very very very good video. please keep them coming
You can also just put an elastic for castration instead of taking scissors
sometimes the band breaks. better to cut em off and be done with it
No need to flick out the bud , the burnt ring around the bud will kill the horn .
Thank you for that, wish I had pressed in for my late husband to do this castrating business but he didn't have nerves for that kinda work. Now I have one bull calf that is a few weeks old,
And no one to help. Hoping the rest are heifers!
Does castration affect the taste of the meat or is this strictly about unwanted breeding?
Just prevents unwanted breeding
It does affect the taste of the meat
Also bulls can become aggressive as they get older, dangerous to people and can fight with and injure each other