20kidsonhill
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It is recommended for long term pets that males be castrated as late as 6 months to help the urethra have plenty of time to grow. This would then require, for the comfort of the animal, to be surgically castrated by a vet.
10 to 12 weeks is the youngest a buckling should be done that isn't going to be butchered for meat by the time they are a few months old.
Now with that said, are there whethers out there that are 10 years old that were banded at a week old, I am sure there are many. But your risk of UC does go up with a smaller urethra. And UC is not a pretty death and very expensive to have fixed.
10 to 12 weeks is the youngest a buckling should be done that isn't going to be butchered for meat by the time they are a few months old.
Now with that said, are there whethers out there that are 10 years old that were banded at a week old, I am sure there are many. But your risk of UC does go up with a smaller urethra. And UC is not a pretty death and very expensive to have fixed.
