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clamping vs castration???

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For the cattle folks.... Saw something on TV today about castrating a young bull. Instead of cutting and the blood/flies associated, the vet used a clamp and pinched off each side. Remember my neighbor having that tool as a kid, he folded a piece of newspaper, put a piece of twine in the fold and clamped down. Cut the twine and never scarred the paper.
Wondering whay this method isn't used on horses....

Dave
 

There is a piece of the cord that must also be removed or a horse will still act as if he's a stallion. The tool your referring to on calves is called a Burrdizo.
 
(quoted from post at 11:51:37 06/24/11)
There is a piece of the cord that must also be removed or a horse will still act as if he's a stallion. The tool your referring to on calves is called a Burrdizo.
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Exactly........ Didn't know about the horse difference though..... Advertisement says colts but not grown horses.....

Only asking because we are going to take our stallion out of the gene pool and noone wants to do it until cool weather which is understandable because of flies....

Has anyone had a horse (or any large animal?) castrated and know how long it takes for the urge to go away???
 
i had a vasectomy about 10 years ago and the urge aint went away...my guess is the horse wont forget either...not completely anyhow.
 
(quoted from post at 12:33:53 06/24/11) i had a vasectomy about 10 years ago and the urge aint went away...my guess is the horse wont forget either...not completely anyhow.
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You ay have meant that as a joke, but do you think that is the idea. Remove them instead of disable them???
 
My thinking is that squeezing one's NutZ at any point for several days with any tool has to be more more painful than just removing them altogether.

This coming from a guy that wears a pair not from a cattleman for horse person.
 
Cattle (bulls) are easy with the Burdizzo because they hang down far enough that you can feel the vas deferens easily, get it over to the side, and do the old clamperoo, making sure the vas is in the jaws. Gosh, that makes me shudder to even think about it.

It would be harder with horses, because the sack is up tighter to the body, and not as easy to isolate the vas. As well as having the thing trying to kick your head off while you're fooling around down there. No, thanks.

Our ag teacher had a Burdizzo- when somebody would misbehave, he'd pick it up and start opening and closing it, while glaring at the miscreant. Seemed to work, most of the time.

I always used bands, just because it was so easy. I suppose there's a dull ache until they fall off, but it never seemed to slow the calves down any.
 
I've heard the mountain oysters from banded bull calves taste horrible! :)

Once they finally fall of that is.
 
Horses are a lot more suseptible to tetanus, the toxin produced by Clostriduim Bacteria. As the band cuts off the circulation the undesired parts die off. . . sometimes bacteria numbers grow where the blood/immune system can no longer fight them off.
A yearly tetanus nnalert is a good thing for a horse, most times the only time I ever see any problems is from the Amish. . . dont really vaccinate their horses.

Also agree that it would be difficult to get a band around the necessary parts. . . much closer to the body in a horse.
 
Helped the farmer down the road do 5 head this spring with the clamp.Hearing some of the snapping noises sure does make you winch.

Vito
 
My understanding is if they are castrated as adult, they retain alot
of the aggression and mounting instinct etc. They won't sing in no
choir.
 
I remember elastrators, emasculators and castrators from Vo-Ag in high school. As a (47 year before retiring) cattleman, I used elastrators and scapels. Since there are city folk who frequent these forums, I'll post a link (google images) rather than a picture.
Look
 
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