Horn banding

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They are UTD on shots. I hope this works.
 

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Looking at your pics again make your notches on the side not the front
And if you can't get it all the way down to the head I wouldn't worry too much about it
He really looks like a good candidate to band
Much less horn there than we had
 

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Looking at your pics again make your notches on the side not the front
And if you can't get it all the way down to the head I wouldn't worry too much about it
He really looks like a good candidate to band
Much less horn there than we had

Ok. That maybe easier to see and get it right.
 

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Here is one done. We couldnt get the others to stay on. Hope this is right!
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The bands just grew up. I put them at the hair line and well now u can see an indention on the tips of his horns now where they were. His mom was taking one side off so i had to reapply it several times. So for now he has horns..
 

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He has 2 rings on his horns. I think the ones on the very tip is from the disbudding we had done at the vet. And the second is from the bands. The rest is testosterone. Lol. I dont know if i will try again unless he trys to use them on me. So far he is very docile.
 

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View attachment 35626 He has 2 rings on his horns. I think the ones on the very tip is from the disbudding we had done at the vet. And the second is from the bands. The rest is testosterone. Lol. I dont know if i will try again unless he trys to use them on me. So far he is very docile.
Thanks for responding! I'm going to try to band a buckling whose disbudding was a fail. I hope I can get the job done.
 

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Thanks for responding! I'm going to try to band a buckling whose disbudding was a fail. I hope I can get the job done.
Let me know if it works. We learned a hard and expensive lesson. Just deal and stomach the yells of disbudding and make sure ita done right. The one we did worked. The other 3 done by the vet did not. My husband said never again. He will just do them.
 

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I have a Saanen kid who our vet disbudded and whose horns grew back. :( I asked our vet if she thought we could band them, but unfortunately she said it would have to be a more major surgical procedure to remove them. We'll be disbudding on our own next time, too.
 
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