An Assessment of the efficiency of the Leister-Ghibli hot air disbudding gun

Abstract

For many years the red-hot iron has been the method of choice for the de-horning of calves in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless, there can be little doubt that the method involves considerable tissue destruction and a certain degree of pain in the immediate post-operative period. It is therefore interesting to find that Leister-Ghibli have produced a hot air tool for the same purpose.

The Leister-Ghibli hot air tool has a wide variety of applications not only in the field of Veterinary Science but also in Human Medicine, Agriculture and laboratory work. In this study the efficiency of the gun for disbudding calves was investigated.