disbudding

I have a mini alpine buckling born February 11th, and we disbudded him and his sister at 3 weeks old. I know that it was later then it should have been, but I forgot that we were going to dehorn the babies until they were already 3 weeks old. We burned them off the best we could. The doelings...

Hi, We had one of our Nigerian Dwarf buck triplets born with horns (the others were naturally polled). We had a goat farmer friend dis-bud him for us but it now looks like his horns are coming back in. We've never dis-budded before but we do have the farmers burn kit he sold us as they are...

So today I decided to research and make sure our goats were properly disbudded and banded. After looking at a few things I saw that ours were not as most people’s looked. From what I saw most were brown and copper but ours are a deep purple. The dsibudding was done about two weeks ago but the...

What is the best and quickest disbudding iron for goats? Thanks!

Does anybody have experience with disbudding with local anaesthesia? Any tips? How hard is it to get the nerve? And yes, I know lidocaine can be very dangerous in the wrong amounts. We were going to use 1 ml 2% lidocaine with epinephrine diliuted with 3 ml of sterile water. Then divide that into...

Please post why or why not you think the polled goat gene is linked to hermaphrodicism. I have heard both claims and am interested in what other people know or think. Thanks!

We are first time solo disbudding. Our doe gave us a cute little buck, which we knew would be harder. He was born July second and disbudded at 4 days old. He started to seem to regrow horns so we attempted to reburn last night. One horn was already much larger and we need guidance. We burned and...