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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1676633" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>I've always preferred polled cattle, especially bulls. Have used a few horned bulls over the years back when I had Charolais. I used an iron to disbud the calves when young, and did the same with our dairy calves when raising them. Later on I used a Barnes type dehorner when I needed to dehorn a larger stocker calf. One of the great things about Angus is practically no horns except if you have cows like the one in my avatar. We bought a "polled" Hereford bull a few years ago and found out after some horned calves from polled cows and a closer look at his wooly head while in the chute that evidence of horns were there just a pretty good dehorn job. Had to dehorn avatar cow's calf of course a couple weeks ago, at around 8 months of age with the Barnes. I hadn't had to use that for several years and was my wife's first time seeing a calf dehorned outside of the disbudding iron. I told her there would be blood but she wasn't prepared. She was pretty worried about it for several days but I told her I wasn't too concerned after he was eating within an hour of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1676633, member: 24816"] I’ve always preferred polled cattle, especially bulls. Have used a few horned bulls over the years back when I had Charolais. I used an iron to disbud the calves when young, and did the same with our dairy calves when raising them. Later on I used a Barnes type dehorner when I needed to dehorn a larger stocker calf. One of the great things about Angus is practically no horns except if you have cows like the one in my avatar. We bought a “polled” Hereford bull a few years ago and found out after some horned calves from polled cows and a closer look at his wooly head while in the chute that evidence of horns were there just a pretty good dehorn job. Had to dehorn avatar cow’s calf of course a couple weeks ago, at around 8 months of age with the Barnes. I hadn’t had to use that for several years and was my wife’s first time seeing a calf dehorned outside of the disbudding iron. I told her there would be blood but she wasn’t prepared. She was pretty worried about it for several days but I told her I wasn’t too concerned after he was eating within an hour of it. [/QUOTE]
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