Recent content by tkeefe

Hunter would like to say, "Good morning and thank you to everyone supporting my GoFundMe campaign!" It's pajama day. How many of us WISH we could go to work today in pajamas???? I do!!!

Hunter and his family are personal friends of mine. Just wondering if anyone out in the showpig community would like to help him get this track chair so he can show his pigs by himself. https://www.gofundme.com/dus5syw4 Hunter is our 11 year old son who has Cerebral Palsy. He has been a...

Lucky_P  Yes the first vet was contacted after the problem with the last one. I had no idea that our 4H beef committee did not recognize crimping as a viable means of castration. Actually, I know its bad on my part but didn't even know the crimping method was an option.  I just asked for him to...

Thank you for the comments and happy Thanksgiving to all.  We received word today and unfortunately we dont have much time. We have to have him castrated "properly" by our weigh in date of Dec. 6th.  So it looks like I'm calling the vet tomorrow morning to set up surgical castration for Monday...

Thanks for the comments. Some sort of a power bander was suggested, but I cant find anyone around my location that has one. I'm in western New York. The vet said it wouldn't be just a conventional surgical castration. She would need to get in above the possible scar tissue from the crimping and...

We recently had our 8 month old 4-H bull calf castrated by the crimping method.  Our local vet came out and performed the procedure.  We were unaware that this method is not accepted by our local 4-H organization as a reliable means of castration.  We are looking in to having another vet come...