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You can get the capsules for $2 a shot from Jeffers.com. But you have to buy 150 of them. It's the best buy I have found. The treatment works for me for a couple of weeks but I've never seen it work for 5-6 weeks like some proclaim. As the flies are worse on my bulls, I shoot them two times...

Yes, standing up. I run them through my squeeze chute and catch them in the head catch. I don't squeeze them though because when you do it forces their legs together and makes it really hard to get to the testicles. My chute has the half inch tubing sides you can let down as many or as few as...

Yesterday I worked 68 weanling calves. Of the 68, 37 were bull calves, which I castrated with my pocket knife. As I was running them through the squeeze chute I remembered the very first bull calves I castrated, it was a delightful and funny memory. It was 1988 and I was 19 years old. I only had...

If I can band it within a week of birth I use the little green cheerios. Otherwise I knife cut. Sometimes a younger calf's testicles will be smushy, almost like jello. These are hard to cut. I tie a shoe string around the top to hold the testicles down before I made the incision. When I get him...

I bought one in March and have been using it all Summer. My experience is it is not effective at all. For example, one of my bulls was COVERED with horn flies last week. I shot him right in the desired spot, TWO times, once on each side. He had just as many flies the next day, and the next, and...