Dr. Naylor's Dehorning Paste

[TexasJerseyMilker]

When I took off the tape it only did tissue distruction to the bumps and their surrounding area. Today she just seems tired but maybe that is from the vaccines. https://www.cattletoday.com/threads/cows-lethargic-after-vaccinations-worming.68141/

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

The heifer is fine today, she no longer has 'the slows'. I guess she was just worn out.

Dr. Naylors website says the paste in a strong alkali not an acid. The antidote for washing it off a cow's udder or smeared all over itself by the calf is straight vinegar. She would have smeared it too, she was going nuts, thats why I cross tied and hobbled her. 6 hours of going nuts is hard on a calf.

Now there are 2 black quarter sized caved in spots where her horns would have been. I had thought of just leaving the horns but Jersey horns are thin and sharp as daggers. The shape grows out and up in the hook and toss style. I figured it would be my old pet Jersey would get the worst of it in herd dominance battles so I got rid of the horns.

 

[coachg]

Sounds like you took care of the horn buds ! It'll heal over and grow hair back and you'll have a polled jersey . Lol

 

[Farmerjon]

If you know how to use a hot iron dehorner, get a piece of pipe, copper, thin wall metal, whatever the fits over the nub. Fashion a handle out of wood and heat with a propane torch and burn.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

I thought of that but didn't have any copper pipe the right size. Its all curly on my still.

 

[Ebenezer]

If you know how to use a hot iron dehorner, get a piece of pipe, copper, thin wall metal, whatever the fits over the nub. Fashion a handle out of wood and heat with a propane torch and burn.

And it smells so GOOD!

 

[Farmerjon]

And it smells so GOOD!

It is a smell you never forget, can't explain to city folk, and will recognize as soon as you smell it!!!

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

You mean the smell of a running still, right? And the product is a good anesthetic and also sterilizes the area.