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***The Ides Of March***

***The Ides Of March***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Beware the Ides of March….. We’ve all heard that expression….. …..but apparently there’s an Ides of April…and May…and June…and so on….. It does loose some of its ominous-ness (I guess) when you say…Beware the Ides of August….. But even so…I think (in the future) there are a few baby goats who will be marking the Ides of March down on their calendars….. We’ve covered this before…disbudding and castration…two different ends of the same…

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~~~Disbudding~~~

~~~Disbudding~~~

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  It sounds like some sort of gardening chore, doesn’t it?… …..something to do with flowers or petals or roots… But no…..it’s not… It’s a goat-thing… Just about all goats get horns… They are born without horns (much easier to deliver that way)…..but then they quickly start growing… Disbudding is the permanent removal of the pre-horn caps on the kids… It also stops the horns from further growth… It’s not an event we look forward to… ***The Necessity Of Disbudding…

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