The Critical Difference

Callicrate Banders are the only high-tension castration and ligation tools on the market providing pain reducing Compression Analgesia.
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DELAYED CASTRATION
Built-in Cutter
Self-locking Loop

DELAYED CASTRATION
Quality Callicrate Tool
Since 1991

EARLY CASTRATION
Tensioned Loop
for Newborns

VELVET ANTLER REMOVAL
Natural, Drug-free
Velvet Antler Removal

Achieving proper tension is a critical requirement for complete ligation of blood flow and pain suppression.  No other method of banding comes close!

This humane and low-stress, bloodless, high-tension method improves any kind of surgical removal,

including castration, horn removal, and prolapse treatment.

Callicrate Banders are used on cattle, goats, and sheep.

“With the enhanced performance from bull calves left intact, he doesn’t need to use growth implants, which means his cattle qualify for natural beef programs. “If I’m doing delayed castration, I don’t need to use hormones, and I definitely don’t want to implant my heifers because I retain the top end of them or sell them to someone else as replacements.”
Tom Hendrix

Rancher from Wray, Colorado

“We have the Callicrate Bander and love using it on our cattle.  I can’t believe how easy it is and the cattle don’t seem to mind it at all.  I am a firm believer.  I’m still singing the praises of the Callicrate Bander.”
Peggy

Grants Pass, Oregon

“We usually try to get the calves started on feed and then I band them and it doesn’t slow them up a bit.  I leave my bull calves intact to about 600 pounds, which means they stay healthier and perform better.”
Dan Fields

Kansas

“The bottom line is that high-tension banding is faster, easier and less traumatic for the animal than surgical castration.”
Matt Sween

University of California-Davis Animal, Science Department

CALLICRATE BANDER DEMONSTRATIONS

“We have found that your bander has been a fantastic addition to our calf weaning and preconditioning program. It is simple, effective, and cost effective. Thanks again for your fantastic customer service.” – Carson Ribble, Ribble Land & Cattle Company, Hudson CO
Carson Ribble

Ribble Land & Cattle Company, Hudson, CO

“Two of my 16-month-old former bulls, now steers, hate the invention.  Love the Callicrate Bander! – Rick Waechter, Collingwood, Ontario “We, also find, bulls castrated at 12-16 months using the Callicrate Bander are 50-80 lbs heavier hanging weight than the ones pinched at birth.
Rick Waechter

Collingwood, Ontario

“Always happy to see how the calves handle the band so much easier than a knife cut.  Once turned out they don’t kick, don’t stop eating, and don’t seem to hardly notice it at all.”
Blair Hunewill

California