Banding in goats is a method used to stop what?

• A. Blood supply to the horn
• B. Remove horn buds
• C. Castrate
• D. Deworm

Answer: (D)

Banding works by cutting off the blood supply to a specific tissue, causing it to die or become nonfunctional. In goats, this is most commonly used to achieve castration: a tight band around the scrotum stops blood flow to the testes, the tissue atrophies, and the animal becomes sterile. Banding can also be used on horn buds to prevent horn growth by depriving the horn tissue of blood, but it has nothing to do with deworming, which requires antiparasitic medications. So the key idea is that banding disables a tissue by ischemia, with castration being the primary goat-related outcome.