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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 737871" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>OMG. Find another vet. One who WILL castrate, or at least band that thing. It can be done with virtually no risk of bleeding.</p><p>I'd want the horns gone too, if it was a (non-Longhorn) steer that I was keeping for a pet, and I can guarantee you that millions of 2-yr old cattle have been dehorned over the years, and very few ever bleed to death. I never let 'em out of the headgate until I'd 'pulled' any spurting arteries.Yes, unless you have a 'cosmetic' dehorning done, there'll be some great big holes in his head for a while, and depending on where you are and time of year, you may have to deal with flies/maggots in the dehorning wounds, but they'll eventually close over.</p><p></p><p>You're playing with what is a potentially lethal ticking time bomb. A hand-reared bull has little or no fear of, and once he reaches sexual maturity, even less respect for, human beings. It's not so much a problem with calves reared on their dams, but a bull raised on bottle/bucket in close proximity to humans is a disaster waiting to happen. He may seem 'puppy-dog' tame right now, but at some point - and probably when you least expect it - he's gonna see you, or anyone else who happens to be within striking range - as a potential rival, and even the biggest, burliest guy is no match for 1800-2500 lbs of seething rage, bone, and muscle.</p><p>Back in the day, death from bull attacks was the leading cause of death for folks on a dairy farm - and it's not necessarily because dairy bulls are meaner than beef bulls, but because they're removed from their dam soon after birth and reared by humans. Fewer today, due to the predominance of AI in dairy herds, but they still happen every year. A big, mature bull can reduce you to a pile of mangled bloody meat scraps in the barnyard dirt or corner of the barn.</p><p>We see a similar situation in many species - hand-reared stallions are a threat, as are the 'berserk male' llamas, raised on a bottle.</p><p>Even hand-reared cows & steers can be a problem, but they don't have the testosterone-driven ferocity of bulls.</p><p></p><p>This is nothing to play around with.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 737871, member: 12607"] OMG. Find another vet. One who WILL castrate, or at least band that thing. It can be done with virtually no risk of bleeding. I'd want the horns gone too, if it was a (non-Longhorn) steer that I was keeping for a pet, and I can guarantee you that millions of 2-yr old cattle have been dehorned over the years, and very few ever bleed to death. I never let 'em out of the headgate until I'd 'pulled' any spurting arteries.Yes, unless you have a 'cosmetic' dehorning done, there'll be some great big holes in his head for a while, and depending on where you are and time of year, you may have to deal with flies/maggots in the dehorning wounds, but they'll eventually close over. You're playing with what is a potentially lethal ticking time bomb. A hand-reared bull has little or no fear of, and once he reaches sexual maturity, even less respect for, human beings. It's not so much a problem with calves reared on their dams, but a bull raised on bottle/bucket in close proximity to humans is a disaster waiting to happen. He may seem 'puppy-dog' tame right now, but at some point - and probably when you least expect it - he's gonna see you, or anyone else who happens to be within striking range - as a potential rival, and even the biggest, burliest guy is no match for 1800-2500 lbs of seething rage, bone, and muscle. Back in the day, death from bull attacks was the leading cause of death for folks on a dairy farm - and it's not necessarily because dairy bulls are meaner than beef bulls, but because they're removed from their dam soon after birth and reared by humans. Fewer today, due to the predominance of AI in dairy herds, but they still happen every year. A big, mature bull can reduce you to a pile of mangled bloody meat scraps in the barnyard dirt or corner of the barn. We see a similar situation in many species - hand-reared stallions are a threat, as are the 'berserk male' llamas, raised on a bottle. Even hand-reared cows & steers can be a problem, but they don't have the testosterone-driven ferocity of bulls. This is nothing to play around with. [/QUOTE]
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