>From past experience, spend the extra money and have the older lamb surgically castrated. The calf will probably be too large for the lamb. You could castrate yourself but the lambs this size tend to bleed more. Spend the money with your vet! Rhonda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Swindell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info@lists.blackbellysheep.info> Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 11:33 AM Subject: [blackbelly] Question about banding ram lambs in later stages ofgrowth
> I have a rather urgent question concerning banding castration of young ram > lambs. The ram lamb I want to castrate is 3.5 months old. He is a little > too big for the normal "elastorator" banding equipment that I have. So I > have made an appointment to have him surgically castrated for next Monday > afternoon. However, a co-worker suggested that I use a calf banding tool > and calf rubber band, which she and her husband use. She offered to bring > the banding tool and a couple of small calf-sized band into work on Monday. > > This message is from the Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info mailing list > Visit the list's homepage at Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info@lists.blackbellysheep.info > http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release Date: 6/1/2005 _______________________________________________ This message is from the Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info mailing list Visit the list's homepage at Blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info@lists.blackbellysheep.info http://lists.blackbellysheep.info/listinfo.cgi/blackbelly-blackbellysheep.info
