Dehorning with rings?

[R. John Johnson]

Has anyone heard of this? I was told it was possible, but that it took larger rings that the ones used to castrate. I asked our local vet, but she has never heard of it. I must have had a bad batch of paste two years ago because my heifers this year have more horns than the rest of the herd put together. Just trying to avoid that messy job of cutting them off with the wire saw.

PS 62 live calves on the ground out of 61 cows so far :banana: Don't know how long that luck is going to last.

John

 

[c farmer]

We dehorned 2 this year with bands and worked good, same bands we use for banding.(very little bleeding) We did our first one about 5 years ago and was terriable everytime the horn was bumped it would bleed bad. Decided to try it again and worked very nice.

 

[rockridgecattle]

did not work for us. Best for us was de horning paste and duct tape at birth

 

[1982vett]

I like for the bull to do it for me. :clap: :roll:

 

[rockridgecattle]

I like for the bull to do it for me. :clap: :roll:

I so agree, haven't had to de horn in several years

 

[Ryder]

We dehorned 2 this year with bands and worked good, same bands we use for banding.(very little bleeding)
We did our first one about 5 years ago and was terriable everytime the horn was bumped it would bleed bad. Decided to try it again and worked very nice.

I have seen them real sesnsitive. Evereytime horn was bumped you could tell they hurt.
Cut them off and be done with it.

 

[CKC1586]

Yeah have heard of it but have never seen it done. Dont know if this would work or not but found it while playing around on the net.


http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html ... b0d0204ae5

I am not even sure what they do.

Those are horn weights, used on horned Herefords to gradually turn their horns down...

 

[Keren]

I know it can be done with goats . . . I also know it is the most painful and drawn out method available for dehorning a goat. Imo it is the most inhumane method.

Never had experience with using ring to dehorn cattle though. We use paste.