As I've mentioned, the budding horns of the kids are burnt off as soon after birth as possible. This stops them growing horns which stops them hurting each other and their human pets. De-budding is done as soon as the buds appear - usually within their first couple of weeks of life.
But Rosebud's buds didn't appear for several weeks. This makes the de-budding harder - there's more tissue to burn through - so she came back from the vets yesterday all bandaged up. We confined her so that we could stop her from being butted by other goats, butting other goats and having her bandages picked off. But she escaped and next time we looked she was out in the field. The vet said to keep her bandaged on for a day or two. They were gone within hours.
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