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Temporary 'castration' for cattle

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Title Temporary 'castration' for cattle
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description Farmers can now temporarily castrate their young bulls, thereby making handling much easier. They can also temporarily spay their young heifers or cull cows to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Temporary castration or spaying can be brought about by immunising cattle with a vaccine. This hormone vaccine has been developed by Australian researchers at the Tropical Cattle Research Centre of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Queensland.



Young bulls can be turned into steers for the first two years of their lives. This makes management easier, and allows a number to be run together without risk. During this period the temporary steers will grow slightly slower than bulls but more like a steer.



This gives the farmer the opporunity to select a bull for breeding on the basis of how that bull's progeny is likely to grow. Temporary spaying of young heifers allows farmers to run very young animals with bulls without the danger of early pregnancies. Also cull cows can now be fattened easily without the danger of going to slaughter pregnant.



The same vaccine is used for both castration and spaying and its effect will last about 6 months.



CSIRO Tropical Cattle Research Centre -

PO Box 5545

Rockhampton Mail Centre

Queensland 4702 - AUSTRALIA
Farmers can now temporarily castrate their young bulls, thereby making handling much easier. They can also temporarily spay their young heifers or cull cows to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Temporary castration or spaying can be brought about by...
 
Date 2014-10-08T13:16:02Z
2014-10-08T13:16:02Z
1989
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 1989. Temporary 'castration' for cattle. Spore 23. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45153
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore, Spore 23
 
Publisher CTA
 
Source Spore