Rhinehart X30 or X50 works too. These are calf dehorners, but you can get them with tips. I'm not sure what size tip you would use for nubians. Probably the 1/2 inch. That's what I use for my nigerians. They have mini tips, but they aren't big enough for my kids.
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Dave, how long are you burning each bud? I use the round 1/2 inch tip on all my kids, and if I burn about 20-25 seconds per bud, with 5-6 second intervals, pop the caps off, burn over where the caps were for a few seconds, and quickly burn another 3 seconds, they don't grow horns or scurs. I've even waited until they were 3 weeks old to disbud them, just burn enough and nothing grows back! 
I don't burn another circle, just disbud like you do doe kids, but a little longer.
I don't burn another circle, just disbud like you do doe kids, but a little longer.
My other half does the disbudding. I am a wuss I think she does a quick 10 count on each burn. 2 or 3 times before the caps come off. I dont know for sure cause as mentioned, I am a wuss and dont like to be in the barn when the babies are crying like that. Then another burn after the cap comes off. So more or less the same. And id say 90% of the time it works fine. But with the bucks, its a little bit more hit and miss. Thus the extra half circle burn. And its not always needed. Things like not getting a chance to do it at the perfect time or its not uncommon for our baby boys buds to be big enough at birth to be done. But we refuse to disbud that early. A week is pretty much our limit. Thus the buck tip would be nice to have. Though we would have to buy the entire unit. Ours is a fixed single tip one. Or we have the calf iron which we use more for burning trim jobs on our older breeding buck. He has some big scurs that we cut and burn ever year. We dont try to cut all the way down and burn at the skull. We leave a few inches. 3-5 minutes and we are done.
I think she does a quick 10 count on each burn. 2 or 3 times before the caps come off. I dont know for sure cause as mentioned, I am a wuss and dont like to be in the barn when the babies are crying like that. Then another burn after the cap comes off. So more or less the same. And id say 90% of the time it works fine. But with the bucks, its a little bit more hit and miss. Thus the extra half circle burn. And its not always needed. Things like not getting a chance to do it at the perfect time or its not uncommon for our baby boys buds to be big enough at birth to be done. But we refuse to disbud that early. A week is pretty much our limit. Thus the buck tip would be nice to have. Though we would have to buy the entire unit. Ours is a fixed single tip one. Or we have the calf iron which we use more for burning trim jobs on our older breeding buck. He has some big scurs that we cut and burn ever year. We dont try to cut all the way down and burn at the skull. We leave a few inches. 3-5 minutes and we are done.
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