Disbudded

All of our kids are disbudded now. This was the first time that we’ve disbudded them ourselves. It went pretty good. We only had one problem. When Hephzibah was disbudded it looked great, but within an hour it bled a lot. We were glad to see that the bleeding had stopped though. A few hours later, she was bleeding again! We tried cauterizing the wound, but the bleeding continued. We put several different blood clotting things on her, but she just wouldn’t stop bleeding! We finally just taped gauze to her head and kept her in for the night. We were worried that we would lose her, but in the morning she was fine, so we took her bandages of and let her out with the others. She has been great since! We disbudded them on a windy day, so maybe that cooled the iron too much. She may have rubbed her head too. We are pretty happy with how the disbuddings have come out though! The kids look a lot cleaner than at the vet, because we shaved their heads and used a goat iron instead of a big calf iron. Lily’s kids have such big beautiful stars, that we had to put sunscreen on their heads after we shaved them!

Talitha is getting so fat and pregnant! Her due date is April 1st, so she could kid any day now!