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Stupid Porcupine

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Ben H

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Can't say I'll be nice to nature again, I saw the Porcupine two days before moving the cows/calves into the paddock. I did a baby check last night after work, one of the cows I recently purchased had quils in her nose, went home and got the Dan-Inject gun.

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Adjusting the scope

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She ran around a little, the settled down, dart in the neck. About 2 1/2 cc of Xylazine. Now to wait about 20 min.

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She was back to normal today.
 
I could never figure why every animal on the place has to check out a porcupine from cows to horse's and dogs , well it looks like she fared pretty well , we had a gelding once take a sniff at one then I think he got mad and kicked it a couple of times , he had quills all the way up to his hock on the inside of his leg
 
Was she that wild that you have to ' shoot' her?

Or no chute or facilities to catch her up in?

Don't look too bad though.....I've seen and had to deal with worse
 
jingo2 said:
Was she that wild that you have to ' shoot' her?

Or no chute or facilities to catch her up in?

Don't look too bad though.....I've seen and had to deal with worse
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well it worked didn't , lest he didn't have to rope her and choke her down like we had to do on a cows face that was full of them
 
no chute or facilities on this property, my Powder River stuff is set up a couple miles down the road. Much faster to just put a dart in her then move everything, plus it's very little stress. At some point, because I run cattle on multiple locations, I'd love to have a portable corral, such as the Rawhide.
 
some people on here might tell you to quit bitching and moaning about the quills and make sure your fence is porcupine proof.

Sorry, that was bad but after the other post I just couldn't help myself :D
 
One of the mares got into a porcupine yesterday, on a front and rear leg. I got reading about it and apparently the quills have an antibiotic like fatty acid that prevents infection if they pierce themselves. The horse and the cow above were on two different farms about 1.5-2 miles apart. We have more forest with pine trees then we do fields here, so that makes for plenty of porcupines.
 
If you are interested, check out a couple of posts I put up on this forum last fall.

There are pictures of a porcupine problem we encountered last September. I've never heard of anyone having a mess like this one before or since:

http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39231&highlight=

http://ranchers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39234&highlight=
 

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