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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1806514" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Kids we're helping with their herd get one or two calves each year with horns... they have a rag-tag bunch of cows with some Limo & Charolais back behind some of them... black bull that came with the cows when they bought the farm is scurred - so we KNOW that he is hetero-polled.</p><p>I bought a Stone electric dehorner, like the one AlaCowMan linked, for them to use. I like it better than the old heavy 'hammer-head' Stone dual dehorner one Dave mentioned, which we used when in active veterinary practice. The thinner one heats up faster, and burns well.</p><p>I do a cornual nerve block as soon as we catch the calf in the headgate, and by the time they get all their vaccinations & castration, they're ready to burn horn buds off.</p><p>While I've cut of hundreds(thousands?) of horns with Barnes, Keystones, OB wire... usually just 'pulled' bleeding arteries with a pair of hemostats and sprinkled on some 'blood-stop powder'(which was, IIRC, a mix of ground corncobs and ammonium alum). I much prefer to burn them off when the calves are young... preferrably under 3 months of age... probably even younger if they're Brahman-influenced.</p><p>Used some caustic paste, many years ago, on Holstein bottle calves. It worked, but - and I probably didn't know what I was doing - I burned some holes in ears with it... can only imagine what it would do to a cow's udder if I put it on a calf and turned them right back out with their dam.</p><p></p><p>While the New World 'screwworm' fly was eradicated from the U.S. in 1966, open wounds at this time of year are a threat to be infested by larvae of other Dipteran fly species. Generally not a potentially life-threatening condition (unlike true screwworm infection), but not pleasant to see or deal with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1806514, member: 12607"] Kids we're helping with their herd get one or two calves each year with horns... they have a rag-tag bunch of cows with some Limo & Charolais back behind some of them... black bull that came with the cows when they bought the farm is scurred - so we KNOW that he is hetero-polled. I bought a Stone electric dehorner, like the one AlaCowMan linked, for them to use. I like it better than the old heavy 'hammer-head' Stone dual dehorner one Dave mentioned, which we used when in active veterinary practice. The thinner one heats up faster, and burns well. I do a cornual nerve block as soon as we catch the calf in the headgate, and by the time they get all their vaccinations & castration, they're ready to burn horn buds off. While I've cut of hundreds(thousands?) of horns with Barnes, Keystones, OB wire... usually just 'pulled' bleeding arteries with a pair of hemostats and sprinkled on some 'blood-stop powder'(which was, IIRC, a mix of ground corncobs and ammonium alum). I much prefer to burn them off when the calves are young... preferrably under 3 months of age... probably even younger if they're Brahman-influenced. Used some caustic paste, many years ago, on Holstein bottle calves. It worked, but - and I probably didn't know what I was doing - I burned some holes in ears with it... can only imagine what it would do to a cow's udder if I put it on a calf and turned them right back out with their dam. While the New World 'screwworm' fly was eradicated from the U.S. in 1966, open wounds at this time of year are a threat to be infested by larvae of other Dipteran fly species. Generally not a potentially life-threatening condition (unlike true screwworm infection), but not pleasant to see or deal with. [/QUOTE]
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