HOW TO DEHORN CALVES | PAIN FREE & STRESS FREE

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Жыл бұрын

In today's video, we are looking at how to dehorn calves in a pain-free & stress-free way. We look at why we do it (and don't do it) and look at a comparison of a dehorned bull and a non-dehorned bull. We use anaesthetic to numb the area and then support the calf in a crate. We use a gas dehorner to burn a ring around the bud of the horn to stop it from growing by cutting off the blood supply to it. This time we are just dehorning the first of this years calves that we have got so far.
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@lukagiltrap77 Жыл бұрын

To the entire Stewart Family, I am so sorry to hear of the passing of your beloved Uncle Ian. I, and I believe many others like me, who will never meet you in real life, was a big fan of Ian. He came across as a very interesting man, a man who could do anything with his hands, a man with a deep visceral knowledge of all things farming, but also a humble gentleman. I never had the pleasure of meeting him in real life, but I am not ashamed to say, as a grown man, I am typing this through some tears. He will be missed. May his gentle soul rest in eternal peace.

@MrShanbla Жыл бұрын

There's many smells in farming that would never leave you for good reasons but the smell of dehorning calves is one of the ones you wouldn't be quiet as nostalgic about 😅

@glencarter4697 Жыл бұрын

Condolences to you and your family for the loss of your uncle. Rip Uncle Ian

@markallen6961 Жыл бұрын

My father would trim the hair before dehorning,no fancy calf crush just me holding on tight.will never forget the smell👍

@IrishFarmer Жыл бұрын

Its SO nice to see the woman of the farm out and about, de-horning some calves

@Jp-eo7jl Жыл бұрын

Sorry for your loss Stewart family . We sharpened the ring on the end of the dehorner a couple of seconds each side straight in no movement side to side...job done

@denisekelly9559 Жыл бұрын

So!!! We look forward to your videos every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday! We are so sorry to hear of the loss of your Uncle Ian and your Dad's brother! We look forward to seeing videos of the 1200 restoration in the honour of Uncle Ian! We are really sorry for your loss! Rip Uncle Ian! Dx

@eoinmckeon2810 Жыл бұрын

That calf crate looks to be a very handy bit of gear, brilliant video as always 👍🏻

@willyfindlay4398 Жыл бұрын

Lovely to see you walking along at the end of the video as a great couple 💑 😀

@adriansheehan360 Жыл бұрын

Goodman phil, another good video, great team work there, great demonstration of a job people dont see, keep videos coming.

@jamesmichael3998 Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I would help one of my neighbors use an electric iron horn tool and burn the little horns on the young goats, I don't think it traumatized them it was the smell that traumatized me I couldn't spit that nasty burnt hair taste away, it was awful. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞

@simonferris7850 Жыл бұрын

So well done liv

@ciaranflaherty2912 Жыл бұрын

Rip uncle Ian ❤

@gemmamoore4053 Жыл бұрын

Great video Phil and liv

@sandymcghee3328 Жыл бұрын

Another good video Phil @ liv 👍👍👍👍

@Eric-xd4nr Жыл бұрын

So handy way of dehorning calves

@garymadden2656 Жыл бұрын

Great video Phil that’s some piece of kit the calf crate 👌

@George_Ren Жыл бұрын

So, that's a good job done. Some nice chilled beasties there.

@johnosullivan1342 Жыл бұрын

So now Great video phil and liv 👍👍

@smalldairyfarmer Жыл бұрын

This video is so good calves looking good

@brendanbannon78 Жыл бұрын

Well Done Philip

@gearoidkelly533 Жыл бұрын

Very good farmer phil

@jonathancharrington3410 Жыл бұрын

So that was freaky. I messaged you the other week asking about the horns on your cows and now there is a video with all the answers. So am really happy so I will like this video 😂 hope that’s enough so’s

@roberthiggins6401 Жыл бұрын

So now! Good job jobbed.

@randybutler4772 Жыл бұрын

Well done F. P. Thank you for sharing and for caring for cattle so well.🐄

@mourne Жыл бұрын

another great video by the dream team. the dehorning creat makes life a lot easier. all farmers should have one.

@Tractors_steam Жыл бұрын

Interesting video.

@dr.motlhanka1922 3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much it was helpful

@Tommymellett Жыл бұрын

Good video Phil

@declanf9184 Жыл бұрын

Good on phill and liv They are fine calf’s

@william964 Жыл бұрын

Good video farmer pill and liv

@markryan6578 Жыл бұрын

Great video Phil and Liv. Regarding your beef cattle, you are losing money going to a factory with them. In the present climate and with online bidding you would absolutely get on better in a mart.

@johnsweeney3060 Жыл бұрын

So, another interesting video, saw this job done with the electric Dehorner, no calf crate and the bug digging out method… your way of doing it is better.

@oisingrogan3109 Жыл бұрын

RIP for ur uncle will be remembered

@richardoleary7599 Жыл бұрын

Hi Phil, the past few years as we've been buying calves to rear we find if you dehorn them at 3/4 weeks old it hardly affects them and within a few hours later they are very lively again. As long as there's a bud showing we find it works well. The numbing injection is a great help if they are that bit older

@patodwyer721 Жыл бұрын

Nice one Phil & Liv. You can only say so, so many times or you end up going around in circles. So I won't say so anymore incase Liv get Livid.

@casestockman7078 Жыл бұрын

So now that was a great vid

@mikeroutledge6929 Жыл бұрын

SO, SO , SO, LOL nice job there with the de horning

@brendanwhite9799 Жыл бұрын

So So so so Great work as always Olivia and Phil . Ps any more updates on the 1200

@DianeD862 Жыл бұрын

You take great care with the calf’s it’s so wonderful.Your the best Farmers Phil and liv and Father Phil best in the world 🌎.We have our viewing sorted out for the evening.Good luck 🍀 🍀🍀☘️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪

@stephenfitzpatrick575 Жыл бұрын

Cringe

@conorfox6303 Жыл бұрын

@@stephenfitzpatrick575 your life is cringe

@stephenfitzpatrick575 Жыл бұрын

@@conorfox6303 😂😂😂😂 bit of banter. We might have a we might have a buzz kill here 😅😅

@conorfox6303 Жыл бұрын

@@stephenfitzpatrick575 ah sher a bit of banter ti's all it is 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@petelamps6055 Жыл бұрын

So, that was a great video. You do it differently to the way I was shown and I can see that your way is soooooo much better (so sorry liv)

@joestiller4270 Жыл бұрын

So glad to see you enjoying the good life. So what's coming ?

@ronaldlucas5360 Жыл бұрын

I enjoy your videos 👌

@MrGrtx Жыл бұрын

great video very interesting:}

@Dave-jm5yo Жыл бұрын

Good job so

@cecilbates5423 Жыл бұрын

I was told at agriculture college, that you should draw syringe back to make sure you don't draw blood. Cos if you inject the anaesthetic into bloodstream you would kill the calf straight away!!

@michaelphantom7087 Жыл бұрын

You're correct. Should be no blood when you drawback but a small droplet forming after the syringe is removed is actually normal and a good sign

@marctunney3743 Жыл бұрын

I was on a farm with no vet's anddid well and still on top

@rayobrien4990 Жыл бұрын

Great to see the fire safety 🔥 in the shed full of straw

@paddyteresakane4723 Жыл бұрын

so phil would you get your beet now with the change in weather

@michaelphantom7087 Жыл бұрын

Same method we've used ourselves for as long as I can remember, we've never scooped the bud. Invest in a good crate like the one in this video, it's expensive but will more than pay for itself over the years. We check any calves on a weekly basis and once their bud is at an appropriate height that is when we disbud them. We go 10 seconds each side in a circular motion. Always check them after 6-8 weeks but we've never had any regrowth. To feel their heads come July you'd think they never had horns at all, as smooth as could be to the touch. A tip for anyone who's drawing near fly weather is if the scab is starting to lift but fly is irritating them use a bit of sudocream or unfragrenced moisturiser to help with the lifting of the scab.

@russellsteele4404 Жыл бұрын

So yet another great video take care so 👍

@user-rw2um8ro2p Жыл бұрын

Great video Phil the heard watch is some job saves a serious amount of time

@irvenrathburn9421 Жыл бұрын

So Phil buying the calves a little older is working out for you ? And less problem's ?

@Bikemanjoe1 Жыл бұрын

So what a great video guys was So interesting don't have to scoop it out as well nice one

@mikeysky8917 Жыл бұрын

Get the sleep injection from your vet and give each calf a jag in the hip and wait till they fall asleep. Then give them their anaesthetic, trim the hair afterwards and then start the dehorning. Leave the pen and they will wake up not knowing what had happened. Zero stress.

@seanmccaul2263 Жыл бұрын

Where did u get ur calf create? Sorry for the lose 🕊

@paddygoesracing Жыл бұрын

So . That cool

@padraigcodd71 Жыл бұрын

When are you going to fix the tractor and loader in the yard

@paulnewman2115 Жыл бұрын

So that's how it's done ✔

@phil6465 Жыл бұрын

Have you ever tried paste? Maybe the horns are a bit too big, but so much easier.

@FARMERPHIL3690 Жыл бұрын

No never tried it

@michaelfeeley6180 Жыл бұрын

Are you in bordbia you need all calves done under 2 weeks

@wulliewhyte544 Жыл бұрын

So thats the calves de horned hows the slurry getting on Phil

@welllads Жыл бұрын

Well

@RedcastleGAV78 Жыл бұрын

Forgive my ignorance if im wrong, but is that not a bit risky using that bit of kit around bales of straw?

@ianbermingham9047 Жыл бұрын

No no no ,no

@jimmy75256 Жыл бұрын

RIP Uncle Ian

@tomgreene1843 Жыл бұрын

Also ....man had great knowledge...

@kenosimafoko9856 9 ай бұрын

How to use baking soda for cattle

@sambrummitt3359 Жыл бұрын

Trim the hair round spud that what we do massy man

@jasondavies4887 Жыл бұрын

So I find there is less bullying when they are dehorned. I missed a AAX and every cow in the shed keeps out her way

@chrisnil Жыл бұрын

So!

@stonemad4197 Жыл бұрын

Do you not find the cattle with horns in the shed can be a bit shy putting their heads out at times due to slightly hurting themselves when pulling heads back out of the barriers as another animal bullied their way in .. I stopped buying weanlings with horns on them due to the fact at least once a week the shed would be covered in blood from a horn being knocked off... Had to get the vet out once as he had been badly bleeding for a few hours before I saw him

@FARMERPHIL3690 Жыл бұрын

Never really been a problem once we took out bars from the locking barrier

@tommoylan8606 Жыл бұрын

So so so so so so

@gilbertoheenandez8291 Жыл бұрын

How old are the calves?

@arjunjungbhandari8322 Жыл бұрын

Any job in your farm?

@dessiemaguire343 Жыл бұрын

Paint on some burnt engine oil on the ringworm to kill it

@marctunney3743 Жыл бұрын

Done 1000s no prob crack on .

@sebskiff Жыл бұрын

Ah, so that’s how you do it 😂 👍

@paddy294 Жыл бұрын

Cracking video as always. So how many calves are you buying this year or is it around the same as always

@stephenfitzpatrick575 Жыл бұрын

Witch Is

@mistaken_stranger8343 Жыл бұрын

Interesting about not scooping out the horn bud. I was always told the entire horn had to be burned out. I'd always say dehorning around 2-4 weeks old as the calf is too young to remember it. Had done larger cattle with wire before and it was a disaster. Personally I prefer to have the horns removed as had bad experience with a bullock breaking a horn off in the feeding gate a few years ago.

@welllads Жыл бұрын

They still will let u into the mart if they have horens

@martinflood5048 Жыл бұрын

Maybe try do a few with dehorning caustic paste far easier and cheaper than gas or electric dehorning but have to be done young

@welllads Жыл бұрын

@demonaedan4748 Жыл бұрын

First

@henryjohnsen77 Жыл бұрын

@lukagiltrap77 Жыл бұрын

So so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so soin' like a soin' machine!😂

@marnokreatif1357 Жыл бұрын

Apakah ini peternakan sapi perah.

@mickeymcmahon6978 Жыл бұрын

Rather the dehorning than the sculling

@johnpick6829 Жыл бұрын

You might have an issue if you put the hot iron on a bale of straw 🤔 😳

@donalcrowley3326 Жыл бұрын

So now liv

@ocb8486 Жыл бұрын

Why cant you bring horned animals to the mart?

@unaoconnor3628 Жыл бұрын

Dangerous for the mart handlers

@ocb8486 Жыл бұрын

@@unaoconnor3628 ahh okey,thanks for answer

@ladbox1 Жыл бұрын

Sooo

@barrytipton1179 Жыл бұрын

Glad u didn’t de bud me lol

@johnnymurphy2195 Жыл бұрын

So . Sorry Liv😁 . That looked painless and stress free.

@jasondavies4887 Жыл бұрын

So I like the smell of dehorning. But I also like the smell of hot shoeing horses.

@marctunney3743 Жыл бұрын

Sound very ucane i know but igot all calfs done in 10 mins . No dope just wasze though with big men don in ten

@greggroome2791 Жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪👍👍

@caffrey9762 Жыл бұрын

It's a pity cattle are dehorned, I do understand why it's done. But a cow with horns always attracts my attention. For example, if I was buying a high land cow, no way would I buy a dehroned one 🤨

@TerriblyNice_Not Жыл бұрын

I really enjoy seeing how you follow the data and the best practice. But I am quite surprised you do the holly thing for ringworm. There is no scientific basis for that at all - and if you think about it, it makes no sense that it could work. What's the mechanism? If it actually had some sort of anti-fungal gas that it let off (which it doesn't) how would you get that at any volume onto the affected area of skin on a particular animal? It's just piseóg-ery - an old wives tale. Ringworm is a fungus as I'm sure you know. It's also incredibly contagious, but also not a major issue and dies off quickly. Once you have it there's nothing you can do other than monitor the condition of the cattle and wait for it to go. Don't waste your time on superstitions when you're clearly looking to do things to improve your margins and profitability. Use the time for something that there is evidence for

@FARMERPHIL3690 Жыл бұрын

Well it works and works well can’t tell you why or how but it works

@TerriblyNice_Not Жыл бұрын

@@FARMERPHIL3690 It definitely doesn't. But it's not harming either, so keep at it if you like. Good video all the same

@richardwilson4379 Жыл бұрын

Caustic them under a week old, don't buy them unless their done. You have enough to do.

@michaelrafferty373 Жыл бұрын

So you be careful Liv doesn't dehorn u

@gerardoconnor5010 Жыл бұрын

It's a case of making time to do the decorating. How is it ye have plenty time for fixing old machinery and going to machinery shows. Need to get your priorities right