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| Audrey Turner in front of her Battle Ground home on April 17, 2019. Turner has kept goats for 8 years and has disbudded several hundreds of baby goats. She says this year alone, excluding her friends' and acquaintances' goats, she's done 38 disbuddings. |
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| Turner's smoking dehorning iron on April 15, 2019. Turner said she once sustained a facial fracture when a goat with horns threw its head back during milking.
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| Turner performing the disbudding procedure on her buckling on April 17, 2019. Turner said the disbudding is best done when they are only a few days old, before the bud begins to adhere to the skull. She said this makes the process less painful. If the disbudding is done too late, sometimes partial horns called skurs can grow.
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| Turner's Nigerian buckling cries out as the dehorning iron makes its initial burn. "What's two to three minutes of pain," she said, "When it's followed by a lifetime of not getting stuck in fences, and not disemboweling other goats, and not hurting people?"
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| Turner said the baby goats cannot feel after the initial burn, since the cauterization deadens the nerves. They cry out because of the first burn, she said, and after that they cry out because they are being restrained.
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| Turner comforts a recently disbudded buckling on April 17, 2019. Turner said she always gives baby goats banamine, a painkiller, before removing horn buds. |
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| Turner returns the disbudded buckling to his mother in the goat pen on April 17, 2019. The wounds will take about a month to heal, and if not cared for properly, can become infected. |
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| Turner in front of her goat yard in Battle Ground, Washington on April 17, 2019. Turner currently has 18 does, 5 bucks, and 12 baby goats. |
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