Goat Castration-Band Method |
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Written by Administrator-GL
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Sunday, 27 May 2007 |
Page 1 of 2 Goat Castration-Band Method
Deferring castration as close to 6 months of age reduces the incidence of obstructive urinary calculi. This allows the influence of testosterone on the development of the urethral lumen size. BUT it also helps the urethral process to be able to separate completely from the its attachment to the end of the penis, by which at this time the little buckling can impregnate a doeling. This involves more management by the owner because the young males are so precocious and capable of impregnating as early as 3 months. This is NOT reason to castrate early - a bit of early buckling management is all it takes until the little guy is large enough to band safely.
There is no reason why one person cannot band (castrate) their bucklings. It really is easy:
This is a 6 month old pygora buckling in the following photos I tried to get as many close shots of this method when I castrate by myself- I rarely have help so I need to be able to do this alone- Obviously I had someone there taking the pictures for this series. But this is how I do it and it takes all of maybe 5 minutes if that!
Here is the Equipment-
This is the Elastrator Open with band stretched- you can see that as long as the testicles will fit into the stretched band, you can wait until the buckling is older and more developed.
Place band on Elastrator- allow the band to go to the base of the prongs or it will snap off when you open the elastrator-
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