Muletrack
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If you really love her, you should sell her. Old age is an unpleasant way for a critter to end life. Consider what's going with horses since politics ended horse slaughter.
When I was in my 20's I was faced with violent death. Now, I am 65. I'll go with old age. Will consider euthanasia when her quality of life suffers. Nothing dignified being led down a line to have your throat slit and your head thrown in a barrel.If you really love her, you should sell her. Old age is an unpleasant way for a critter to end life. Consider what's going with horses since politics ended horse slaughter.
It's what cattle are for. I'm 65, as well. Do you really want to shoot this old cow? I once put down a treasured family riding horse. Would much rather have seen her fed to to the French. Slaughter is by far the most humane end for any animal.When I was in my 20's I was faced with violent death. Now, I am 65. I'll go with old age. Will consider euthanasia when her quality of life suffers. Nothing dignified being led down a line to have your throat slit and your head thrown in a barrel.
Thanks. I decided to leave her be. I can afford to keep her without her paying anymore. Her mortgage is paid off.Okay time to chime in. If you plan on making her a pasture pet I wouldn't do anything. You knew when you got her that she had hooks. I've never seen a cow with horns that didn't know what they were for.
If she was mine I'd either leave them or saw them off at her head. Nothing inbetween.
As for selling her. Her head is worth more than the rest of the cow.
I've got horses, and I'm pro horse slaughter. I've got one old cow that has earned the right to die on the place, as long as she keeps paying her way.
Okay time to chime in. If you plan on making her a pasture pet I wouldn't do anything. You knew when you got her that she had hooks. I've never seen a cow with horns that didn't know what they were for.
If she was mine I'd either leave them or saw them off at her head. Nothing inbetween.
As for selling her. Her head is worth more than the rest of the cow.
I've got horses, and I'm pro horse slaughter. I've got one old cow that has earned the right to die on the place, as long as she keeps paying her way
The monetary piece is not a consideration here.Okay time to chime in. If you plan on making her a pasture pet I wouldn't do anything. You knew when you got her that she had hooks. I've never seen a cow with horns that didn't know what they were for.
If she was mine I'd either leave them or saw them off at her head. Nothing inbetween.
As for selling her. Her head is worth more than the rest of the cow.
I've got horses, and I'm pro horse slaughter. I've got one old cow that has earned the right to die on the place, as long as she keeps paying her way.
If you want to abuse her cauterize after you hacksaw. 2 inches from base age dependant"Trimming tip of older Hereford's horns. How much can be trimmed without hitting corium?