Well, this morning we disbudded 7 kids. Not the most enjoyable job, but it has to be done. Everyone smells like burnt hair when we are done. . . yuck! But, my sister took pictures of when we did one of the kids, and I thought it might be educational for some of you.
The supplies -
the disbudding iron, Solarcaine, Blu-Kote, and a bottle of milk (to comfort the kid :)).
My brother holds the kid, Mom does the iron, and I blow the smoke away and spray the stuff on.
Pretty good burn. You want a complete copper ring around the whole thing so that nothing grows back.
I then spray Solarcaine on it, and it helps it quit burning and calms the kid down.
Doing the other side,
All done! Here she is finishing a bottle while I spray the Blu-Kote on. You can use other things than Blu-Kote. We are almost out, and I think I will buy an AlumiKote, that way not everything gets purple when we disbud ;)!
After that, we cleaned all the stalls and I made the kid stall bigger, and put the new kids out. I'll try to get more pictures later of them playing ;).
Suriyah
2 comments:
Thank you for posting this. We have linked to it here http://is.gd/6PHK2 at AllThingsGoat.com. We have you in our Google Reader and follow you regularly!
Thank you for this great blog and pictures. I am a beginner goat farmer and have two due in a couple months. I would like to disbud my girls when they are born and this gives a very good visual and example of how to do it.
Thanks again,
Sharon
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