Bif has no bollocks!

The vet - or rather vets - have been and castrated Bif. We watched a video how to do it on youtube, but decided against doing it ourselves!

They also burnt of his horn buds with our gas powered horn disbudder. We had been unsure whether it was getting hot enough so had not done it. Benefit also that they did it under anasthetic.

The disbudder has a flame in it and gets hot, the end is a ring shape which fits over the little bud that will become horns

He was a bit sad afterwards but we cannot have a bull in the fields, it would be too dangerous and even without the crazy bull hormones he would be more dangerous with horns and it is much safer and less painful to burn the buds before they really start growing than it is to have the horns removed later. We wish Bluebell had been done as it is worrying when she tosses her head around. We are planning on trimming off the tips at least.

A few days later he is non the worse for it.