Kid Disbudding Box Plans

A kid box is a great item to have on hand unfortunately they are not readily available to purchase so that leaves building one as your best.

Kid disbudding box plans. What is a kid holding box. Visit your local aloe vera plant for first aid. More information disbudding is probably the least favorite chore of raising dairy goats.

This is the holder that i built for restraining the kids at disbudding time. The angle of the head support chin brace can be altered to meet your and your goats comfort just change the shape of the triangle brace under it. I came up with this design after thinking about how we restrained cattle.

After the iron is completely cool it can be stored in the box with other supplies like blood stopper antiseptic powder paper towels wire brush and other disbudding equipment you collect. The disbudding process isn t difficult but s it s painful to the baby goat kid for the few seconds it takes to do it so they certainly don t want to hold still and it can be difficult without a box like this to contain the kid. How you first catch the goat is up to you.

This is a step by step tutorial on how to build a goat dis budding dehorning box for goats. My main design ideas were to keep the animal s movement to minimum no slipping of the disbudding tool into an eye or across an ear. The box shown in the plan can be used for either standard or miniature breed goats.

In fact most people are surprised to learn that most goat kids except the few that are naturally polled that is hornless start growing horns a few days after they re born. A kid holding box is a wooden box that safely holds a baby goat kid so you can work on them without the risk of hurting them. Kid disbudding box disbudding is probably the least favorite chore of raising dairy goats.

The most common reasons to use a kid box are for disbudding removing of the horns and tattooing.