idnatalie11
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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 moving.
I've read about having to do the figure 8 burn (which he didn't do). He told us about getting the copper rings (said it took about 10 seconds). Also about needing to clip/flatten this new growth, carterize and then overlap the old rings with a new burn in that figure 8 pattern (?)
It looks like the new horns are growing out from the front (see pic) of the old burn rings so I don't know if they are scurs or just new growth that didn't get burned originally? I cicled in red where I thought we needed to re-burn?
Any advice and is this something we can do ourselves? He was Disbudded at 10 days old and is now 5 weeks old.
Thanks in advance!
Natalie
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 moving.
I've read about having to do the figure 8 burn (which he didn't do). He told us about getting the copper rings (said it took about 10 seconds). Also about needing to clip/flatten this new growth, carterize and then overlap the old rings with a new burn in that figure 8 pattern (?)
It looks like the new horns are growing out from the front (see pic) of the old burn rings so I don't know if they are scurs or just new growth that didn't get burned originally? I cicled in red where I thought we needed to re-burn?
Any advice and is this something we can do ourselves? He was Disbudded at 10 days old and is now 5 weeks old.
Thanks in advance!
Natalie