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<blockquote data-quote="Andyva" data-source="post: 1125185" data-attributes="member: 1022"><p>From a biological standpoint, the horns are the radiator. If you cut one off, you will notice a pile of blood going through there. Also, if you notice, your wild cattle that live in hot places have horns, bison have stubby little things in comparison to some of the water buffalo. Your breeds that have popped up semi-feral in hot places have horns, think watusi and longhorn. There is no doubt that it is a huge advantage for a cow out on pasture to have horns, if she lives in hot country. </p><p> As far as the social aspects of having horns, the best example I can come up with, is once I had a whole herd of Spanish meat goats. The one with the biggest horns was always the boss. If you dumped a dehorned one in there, the darned thing wouldn't do anything but fight. Darn things didn't know when to quit, it was like they just assumed that their horns were bigger than anyone else's. The cattle that I've had seemed to follow suit, the ones without horns fight more and longer. (That might just be because the polled one have had Angus in them.) We never had any of the ones with horns missing an eye or stabbed to death, about the worst I've seen was a broken horn.</p><p></p><p>All that being said, I don't really want horns on a bull, they can hurt you bad enough without impaling you. The turning down would be good, if you lived in a hot enough climate to leave the horns on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andyva, post: 1125185, member: 1022"] From a biological standpoint, the horns are the radiator. If you cut one off, you will notice a pile of blood going through there. Also, if you notice, your wild cattle that live in hot places have horns, bison have stubby little things in comparison to some of the water buffalo. Your breeds that have popped up semi-feral in hot places have horns, think watusi and longhorn. There is no doubt that it is a huge advantage for a cow out on pasture to have horns, if she lives in hot country. As far as the social aspects of having horns, the best example I can come up with, is once I had a whole herd of Spanish meat goats. The one with the biggest horns was always the boss. If you dumped a dehorned one in there, the darned thing wouldn't do anything but fight. Darn things didn't know when to quit, it was like they just assumed that their horns were bigger than anyone else's. The cattle that I've had seemed to follow suit, the ones without horns fight more and longer. (That might just be because the polled one have had Angus in them.) We never had any of the ones with horns missing an eye or stabbed to death, about the worst I've seen was a broken horn. All that being said, I don't really want horns on a bull, they can hurt you bad enough without impaling you. The turning down would be good, if you lived in a hot enough climate to leave the horns on. [/QUOTE]
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