Cutting a longhorns horn

[VaCowman]

For those of you banding the horns when calves are relatively young, how long does it take for the horns to fall off? Weeks, months?

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

The closer you can get the band to the base the better. A few wraps of duct tape to keep them from rubbing the band loose helps.

 

[Stocker Steve]

Some hair seems to help hold the band in place. Otherwise - many horns taper alot at the base and the band tends to roll up. Then you have a bit of a stub.

Horns are usually gone in a month, but sometimes one or more horns will stay on longer.

 

[DCA farm]

I decided not to fool with it. I bought her palpated 3 month bred from
A sale that would have put her having a March calf. Well it's april and calf still ain't showed up. I stopped by the vet he told me to bring her by and he repalpate her. I figure I bought her light bred she slipped the calf and maybe my bull bred her in Nov/dec when I put him
Out. I'll load her up here soon and haul her to vet if she comes up open I'll send her on to the sale barn if she's 4-5 months bred I'll bring her back
Home and let her hopefully calve out then I'll send her to a lease place I picked up as a turn out cow.

 

[cfpinz]

For those of you banding the horns when calves are relatively young, how long does it take for the horns to fall off? Weeks, months?

Yearlings or younger - a few weeks, older animals take a bit longer. I've got some friends that use the green cheerio bands on stock, but I've never had much luck getting them to stay in place. The callicrate type has always done a good job for me.

 

[M Gravlee]

apparently the thank button is gone in this thread/forum section... it's still working in others

Fixed.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

I've got a longhorn in my herd I'm looking at either cutting horns completely off or cutting them inside her ear spread. How y'all recommend me going about that. This is a 5 year old cow so she ain't got no baby horns she's heavy bred right now so it will have to be after she calves which would be any day now

Why do you want to cut them?

 

[DCA farm]

I've got a longhorn in my herd I'm looking at either cutting horns completely off or cutting them inside her ear spread. How y'all recommend me going about that. This is a 5 year old cow so she ain't got no baby horns she's heavy bred right now so it will have to be after she calves which would be any day now

Why do you want to cut them?

She don't fit down the chute

 

[Hippie Rancher]

She don't fit down the chute

my experience is they may look that way, but longhorns are lithe and agile like cats, they just gracefully hold their heads sideways and slip right on through. try running her through for feed a few times and not catching her, see if she can actually do it when she is motivated.

also if they really don't fit, and you need to work them you can just tie them by the horns...