Favorite knife for castrating bulls and pigs

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Uncle Bill

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OK it's time to separate the men from th . . . oops, bad metaphor. Ok it's time to cut to the . . . oops . . . uh . . . anyway, what do you guys like to use when collecting all them tasty mountain oysters?

One member has already mentioned a good Swedish Mora blade. Anybody else have a favorite?

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Bill

Unfortunate but Increasingly Necessary Disclaimer:

While this post likely contains incorrect information, fuzzy logic, poor grammar and misspelled words, what it does not contain is intentional malevolence toward anyone.


 
Funny you should ask? We were collecting mountain oysters in August. My uncle was using a hawkbill blade. Nah, it wasn't anything fancy, just a converted carpet knife with a WICKED EDGE? Slick man, I tell you, slick.
 
Uncle ,

Your bringing up memories of days gone by Havn't nutted a sheep or bull or pig since I was kid but we used to use an old case congress with a nutting blade which looks kinda like a sheepfoot with a belly .
 
I prefer Tim Herman' Sliver.
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I read, I think in Knives '99, that the sprey blade on stockmans was used for that. That's what I bought one for...now I need to find a calf somewhere.

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When I lived in Latin America I met an elderly fellow that ranchers from near and far would hire for his skills. He not once would draw blod and would simply rub some wood ash on the poor critters to heal them. His "special" knife was a Gillette razor blade, broken in half, wedged inside a small wooden handle and wrapped with twine.

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ROFLMAO!!

"Nut Thing"

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, geez, [wiping the tears running from my eyes...] I really needed that today.

Many thanks.


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Don LeHue
Royal Oak, Michigan

The pen is mightier than the sword...outside of arm's reach. Modify radius accordingly for rifle.

 
Pigs - usually an "Exacto" type knife or scalpel. (It is important that the pigs are SMALL! ie: piglet size. Do NOT do attempt castration on a 100lb or larger animal.)

Bulls - usually a crimper or rubber band type mechanism. If a "calf fry fry" was coming up, the the scalpel was whipped out.
 
Anybody else read this thread with their legs crossed?

What is a MD Nut Thing?
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"A knifeless man is a lifeless man"
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Saw something on Letterman years ago about a female sheep herder in New Zealand(?) using calcium nutting blades. Err........teeth.
 
Okay, Mike and Spark, test these things and then get back to us.

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This thread is making me squirm! Man! I have a dog, had a cat. They both never had their balls removed. The cat did what he was supposed to do. Fight like crazy almost every day and procreate! Remove the family jewels and the turn fat(that's why you all do that to the cows and pigs I guess!) and useless. So you all had no problems grabbing their balls and cutting them off, huh?!? Whew!

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K. Williams
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Modern Arnis Student


[This message has been edited by K Williams (edited 20 November 1999).]
 
I've read that the Lapps (women) use their teeth on Reindeer.

(hum a few refrains of Rudolf
the Red What? Reindeer here...)

Never wanted to try that, but as a small child I held many a piglet across a wooden fence for my grandfather to perform this operation, he used the large clip point blade of a stockman' knife. They sure kicked their legs and squealed a lot!

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Oh boy

I've ended the family life of so many pigs I'm half deaf and had forearms like tree stumps. Those of you who de-nutted pigs by yourself know what I'm talking about. When you cut pigs solo the knife must be small enough to hold in the palm of your hand and very flat so you can push it into your palm with one finger and not get cut. The one I used had hawk point with a very short edge.
This way when it did get kicked into your palm it didn't go too deep, because you still had five more five-gallon buckets to fill.

Its been a while, but memories like that never leave.

John Yeackley
 
Uncle Bill,

Do you want to have a little fun?

E-mail this whole thread to PETA. That'll rile them!

I'd do it myself but I don't want Mike mad at me.

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