Horned Cattle Days are Numbered.

[Stolle]

Not very happy with one of the old horned cows I inherited from my dad. My brother and I penned cows after lunch to take a couple trailer loads of calves to the sell. Well all went well until I got back to pasture and found one of the younger calves dead. I rolled him over to find a puncture wound to the rib cage. The plan had been to sell them this year once their calves were old enough. Looks like I should have acted sooner. Who else hates horned cows?

[cflanery]

You know the best way to dehorn calves? ....... Breed to a polled bull.

[coop]

We raised horned cattle for several years due to them being able to protect themselves against mostly feral dog packs.

However after my dad was gored we switched to muley's and never regretted it. The threat from feral dogs had slacked off also. No reason for horned cattle unless they're in wild country, I don't think.

[Stolle]

Horned Cattle Days are Numbered.

You know the best way to dehorn calves? ....... Breed to a polled bull.

Good idea if you plan to keep calves to raise. I'm going to dehorn these by selling them

[Tx Taxidermist]

Squeeze chute, dehorning wire saw problem solved. 5 minute fix. If they're throwing good calves. Whole lot less work and cheaper.

[SaltwaterSlick]

I hate ALL cows!!! Used to have to work cattle as a kid... never liked it... I like rib-eyes because a cow has to die for me to get one...

[tazhunter0]

Squeeze chute, dehorning wire saw problem solved. 5 minute fix. If they're throwing good calves. Whole lot less work and cheaper.

This what we did for years. Dad will still cut horns off if him or my brother brings one on the place that has them.

[Jmh05]

We tip our long horn bulls that we breed to our first calf heifers. After that it's angus and Charolais...polled bulls. Rarely have had a problem. But we pull Bulls off and they go in to their own pasture after breeding season. Overlap is rare.

[SaltwaterSlick]

This what we did for years. Dad will still cut horns off if him or my brother brings one on the place that has them.

One of the things I used to hate about having to mess with cattle... we had a big ol' pair of dehorn shears... Looked kind of like bolt cutters. Yearlings with short horns put in a squeeze shoot, dehorner's put over the horn and whack! horn popped right off, then we'd put "that purple stuff" on the stump. Bein' the youngest, that was my job, to dob the burrs with it... No way you could do that and not get that mess on you and it flat DON'T WASH OFF!!! Hated to go to school with purple stain on my hands...

[Christianhuff]

Kac!

[gusman]

My pops would cut a few inches off the cows and cut way back on bulls if there were more than one on his property.

[muzzlebrake]

I been sprayed with blood more time than I can count. Seemed like every other AG field trip in high school was dehorning somebody's mangy old cows. We just used that black smear on them. Purple stuff for castration. It didn't come in a spray can back then.

[txmuleyman]

I prefer a good horned f1 momma. Heck I prefer everything but my bulls to have a little horn. Come spring when we drag calves we burn horns.

[bowhunterchris]

We take a sawzall and tip them.

[Aggie]

We always cut the tips off with cutter when they were young . The horns still grew but were blunt. My grandpa would always look at the farmers almanac to determine where the the blood was. Most the time the signs were right and they did not bleed much but sometimes they bled like a fountain. Several times I went back to town looking like an ax murderer.