The code of recommendations for the welfare of livestock says only a trained and competent stock-keeper should perform disbudding and ideally a vet should do it. |
Some people opt to dehorn the kids, usually when they are 1 week old, with a tool called a disbudding iron, which looks like a soldering iron with the tip sawed off. |
If only about 60 percent of the better stems are staked with canes and the other lateral shoots removed through disbudding, the plant forms bigger, and more showy flowers. |
If you're interested in displaying roses for competition or just producing a nice specimen for the dinner table, try disbudding a few of your roses. |
Every family in the village has some land with tea plants, and generations of the villagers are involved in making tea by disbudding leaves and stirring them in big pans. |
Here he is in spring, disbudding the pea plants and taking off the tendrils before securing the main stems with wire rings. |