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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1806499" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>I have an electric one that has a brass head sort of like a hammer head. There is a hole on each end of the head. One hole bigger than the other. You want the hot iron the fit down over the horn so as to cauterize the blood vessels feeding the horn. A piece of pipe the right diameter (oe inch?) to fit over the horn will work. Just get it good and hot in a fire. Hold in on the horn like you would a branding iron.</p><p>I have used Barnes dehorner to cut out the horn. Quick and easy. The blood does fly. Just cut the horn out and turn them loose. They don't bleed too long. I don't know that I would want to do that this time of the year in the south. But we did 2 here that way just last week.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1806499, member: 498"] I have an electric one that has a brass head sort of like a hammer head. There is a hole on each end of the head. One hole bigger than the other. You want the hot iron the fit down over the horn so as to cauterize the blood vessels feeding the horn. A piece of pipe the right diameter (oe inch?) to fit over the horn will work. Just get it good and hot in a fire. Hold in on the horn like you would a branding iron. I have used Barnes dehorner to cut out the horn. Quick and easy. The blood does fly. Just cut the horn out and turn them loose. They don't bleed too long. I don't know that I would want to do that this time of the year in the south. But we did 2 here that way just last week. [/QUOTE]
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