Found: 3 bulls

[IluvAltaBeef]

...that are gonna be castrated anytime soon.

Cattle were being a bunch of be nice's today... at least them bulls that I was trying to get pics of. :x

Checked the rest of the calves in the two herds as carefully as I could, but these three are the only ones I could find...and no doubt, from what I've been seeing they're full-bulls, not stags.

Bull #1: I've gotta try to get a better pic of this one, guess he didn't like having his picture taken today... :roll:

Bull#2: This one MIGHT be a stag, from the size of his sack...but I'll find out when we run them through to do some dehorning.

Bull #3: This brockle face is DEFINATELY a full bull, if you take a good look at his rear, he's got two testis...and he's one that wouldn't have anything to do with me today. Or any day.

Let me know your thoughts.

 

[Leader area]

Nice pictures

 

[Canadian_Cowgirl]

Jeeze _ _ _ _ _, You can take better Pictures of the bulls than that! :lol: Other than that there beautiful pictures of the other cows and scenery!






Katy

 

[Sundancer]

Looks like those cattle have been cold a little too long. Got any grain in those bins you could feed em?

 

[IluvAltaBeef]

Looks like those cattle have been cold a little too long. Got any grain in those bins you could feed em?

They're being "fattening" up on the barley silage and hay we've been feeding them...I think the grain in there have already been sold...one of the bins has canola in it, the other two are probably empty.

Sundancer, they're pretty tough, the cold doesn't affect them much, only thing matters if they're getting their bellies full and have a comfy place to lie down. They've been doing well thus far too, no sicknesses since a couple months ago, which is a good thing.

 

[IluvAltaBeef]

Jeeze _ _ _ _ _, You can take better Pictures of the bulls than that! :lol: Other than that there beautiful pictures of the other cows and scenery!

Katy

Ya I know, thanks.

BTW, Here's some better pics of Bull #1:

I'm kinda glad these three bulls are ones that wouldn't have anything to do with me, and are the wild type, because if they were the opposite and bigger with a sight more testoterone, then there's gonna be trouble... :nod: :nod:

There's no cows around here for these little beggars to spread their genes around, luckly, so all I have to worry about is the amount of testosterone they might let off in the future, if they DON'T get cut soon.

 

[nr]

Question: do you have to suture up the area after you castrate a bull?
If so, how do you do it, please?

 

[Red Robin]

Question: do you have to suture up the area after you castrate a bull?
If so, how do you do it, please?

nr you can band them with a big bander and they fall of in 3 or 4 weeks. I personally would castrate them with a knife. My method , right or wrong, is cut the bottom third of the scrotum off with a rusty, dirty pocket knife. Pull the testicles down carefully trying to keep the cords attached as long as possible and keep pulling them down till the cords break. Hopefully this is after about a foot of cord has been pulled out with the testicle. I leave it open after castration so it'll drain. There are other ways such as a newberry knife that makes a smaller incision but I don't want them to heal for a day or two so they will drain properly. Kidding about the rusty , dirty knife , kind of. No sewing them up here.

 

[nr]

Question: do you have to suture up the area after you castrate a bull?
If so, how do you do it, please?

nr you can band them with a big bander and they fall of in 3 or 4 weeks. I personally would castrate them with a knife. My method , right or wrong, is cut the bottom third of the scrotum off with a rusty, dirty pocket knife. Pull the testicles down carefully trying to keep the cords attached as long as possible and keep pulling them down till the cords break. Hopefully this is after about a foot of cord has been pulled out with the testicle. I leave it open after castration so it'll drain. There are other ways such as a newberry knife that makes a smaller incision but I don't want them to heal for a day or two so they will drain properly. Kidding about the rusty , dirty knife , kind of. No sewing them up here.

What do you suppose they did in the 1800s? I've worked suturing them up into my story line- now maybe have to rewrite it. Oh rats. Interesting yours don't get infected flapping around in the dust.

 

[Red Robin]

Question: do you have to suture up the area after you castrate a bull?
If so, how do you do it, please?

nr you can band them with a big bander and they fall of in 3 or 4 weeks. I personally would castrate them with a knife. My method , right or wrong, is cut the bottom third of the scrotum off with a rusty, dirty pocket knife. Pull the testicles down carefully trying to keep the cords attached as long as possible and keep pulling them down till the cords break. Hopefully this is after about a foot of cord has been pulled out with the testicle. I leave it open after castration so it'll drain. There are other ways such as a newberry knife that makes a smaller incision but I don't want them to heal for a day or two so they will drain properly. Kidding about the rusty , dirty knife , kind of. No sewing them up here.

What do you suppose they did in the 1800s? I've worked suturing them up into my story line- now maybe have to rewrite it. Oh rats. Interesting yours don't get infected flapping around in the dust.

The kind of castration I told you about has been around for a long time. I doubt they did it much different.

 

[Red Robin]

Interesting yours don't get infected flapping around in the dust.

This sentence beckons me like a warm room on a cold night. I am resisting comment thus far. It's difficult to not be a little sarcastic nr with that kind of leading sentence to play off of. :wink:

 

[nr]

Interesting yours don't get infected flapping around in the dust.

This sentence beckons me like a warm room on a cold night. I am resisting comment thus far. It's difficult to not be a little sarcastic nr with that kind of leading sentence to play off of. :wink:

LOL- your posting is living proof what dangerously erroneous conclusions can be drawn from pulling one lone sentence out of a discussion! I'm almost impressed how you (almost) resisted commenting :lol: and I'll try proof-reading more thoroughly in the future

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Interesting yours don't get infected flapping around in the dust.

This sentence beckons me like a warm room on a cold night. I am resisting comment thus far. It's difficult to not be a little sarcastic nr with that kind of leading sentence to play off of. :wink:

LOL- your posting is living proof what dangerously erroneous conclusions can be drawn from pulling one lone sentence out of a discussion! I'm almost impressed how you (almost) resisted commenting :lol: and I'll try proof-reading more thoroughly in the future

They wouldn't have sutured them. Closing the scrotum will make it swell. bad news.

 

[nr]

This sentence beckons me like a warm room on a cold night. I am resisting comment thus far. It's difficult to not be a little sarcastic nr with that kind of leading sentence to play off of. :wink:

LOL- your posting is living proof what dangerously erroneous conclusions can be drawn from pulling one lone sentence out of a discussion! I'm almost impressed how you (almost) resisted commenting :lol: and I'll try proof-reading more thoroughly in the future

They wouldn't have sutured them. Closing the scrotum will make it swell. bad news.

What if the bull jumped at just the wrong moment and the rancher cut a BIG slash by mistake. Surely that would have to be sutured ?

 

[IL Rancher]

I have seen the chords tied off with suture material on a larger animal... I am always amazed by how little bleeding there actually is when they are knife cut.. I mean, they bleed, don't get me wrong but not as dramatic as a dehorning, lol..

 

[IluvAltaBeef]

Question: do you have to suture up the area after you castrate a bull?
If so, how do you do it, please?

When the vet does it (always have taken these bulls there), he usual just leaves the sack as it is.

Our vet does the castration this way: he cleans the sack, then cuts the bit of skin at the bottom of the scrotum so he can get at both nuts. He then uses the berduzzi and crimps/crunches down on the cord and severes the testis. The berduzzi helps minimize the blood loss and from using a needle and thread to help with the clotting. Sometimes he would have to sew up the end of the cord, but that's only when he didn't do a good crimping job. Then after that (he does it so quick the steered bull hardly feels a thing) he gives the animal a shot of Oxyvet LA 200, and sends him on his way.

Hope that answers your quiestion...

 

[nr]

thank you everyone. I rewrote it that the character made a mistake thinking he had to suture and it swelled up. an easy fix. nothing like Ranchers for all the gory details! Never heard of a Berduzzi but probably they didn't have those anyway in the 1800s!

 

[Soapweed]

thank you everyone. I rewrote it that the character made a mistake thinking he had to suture and it swelled up. an easy fix. nothing like Ranchers for all the gory details! Never heard of a Berduzzi but probably they didn't have those anyway in the 1800s!

Suture self. Fix it up however you want; you're the writer. :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

thank you everyone. I rewrote it that the character made a mistake thinking he had to suture and it swelled up. an easy fix. nothing like Ranchers for all the gory details! Never heard of a Berduzzi but probably they didn't have those anyway in the 1800s!

nr your going to learn lots if you keep hanging around here. :wink:
Even the vets open up the scrotum more after they take the testicles out to help for drainage.