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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 354846" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>You can burn as soon as you can feel them. I usually burn the first time they come through the chute. If your iron is really hot and you burn each bud for about 10 seconds twisting back and forth while doing so you can't really botch it up.</p><p></p><p>A well burnt bud will have a bronze colour around the base.</p><p></p><p>I even burn horns up to 1.5'' long. Just cut them with pruning scissors and burn around the base making sure you burn a wider area than the actual horn base. This is obviously not the prefered method as its always better to burn them as young as possible, but especially when using a heterozygous polled bull on horned cows you often get horn like scurs that doesn't show themselves till much later. These are the ones that often get missed and have to be cut and burnt later.</p><p></p><p>I usually apply gention violet or After-Mule to the burn wound, but its not really neccesary.</p><p></p><p>Remember the hotter the iron the less painfull to the calf.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 354846, member: 4353"] You can burn as soon as you can feel them. I usually burn the first time they come through the chute. If your iron is really hot and you burn each bud for about 10 seconds twisting back and forth while doing so you can't really botch it up. A well burnt bud will have a bronze colour around the base. I even burn horns up to 1.5'' long. Just cut them with pruning scissors and burn around the base making sure you burn a wider area than the actual horn base. This is obviously not the prefered method as its always better to burn them as young as possible, but especially when using a heterozygous polled bull on horned cows you often get horn like scurs that doesn't show themselves till much later. These are the ones that often get missed and have to be cut and burnt later. I usually apply gention violet or After-Mule to the burn wound, but its not really neccesary. Remember the hotter the iron the less painfull to the calf. [/QUOTE]
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