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<blockquote data-quote="1848" data-source="post: 302036" data-attributes="member: 1303"><p>Horned cattle may have an advantage in a range environment for survival and brush popping, but when it comes to the penned environment and handling in tight facilities the benefits of the poll becomes apparent. Finishers would rather have a lot of polled or dehorned cattle over a crowded pen of horned cattle. Why do most seedstock and many commercial cattlemen of purebred herds dehorn their cattle? Go to a cattle show and show me all then horned Limis, Simis, gerts, beefmasters, and Herefords. The only ones you will likely see horns on are the Longhorn...and that is cause it's included in their judging of the animal. How many horned steers you see at shows?</p><p></p><p>If if you think you don't take a discount in the sale barn? Try dehorning those cattle and give them time to get over the stress, then see if they don't bring more per lb in the sale barn compared to their horned contemporaries.</p><p></p><p>P.S. I love the look of a good Horned bull, but that don't make it economically practical.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1848, post: 302036, member: 1303"] Horned cattle may have an advantage in a range environment for survival and brush popping, but when it comes to the penned environment and handling in tight facilities the benefits of the poll becomes apparent. Finishers would rather have a lot of polled or dehorned cattle over a crowded pen of horned cattle. Why do most seedstock and many commercial cattlemen of purebred herds dehorn their cattle? Go to a cattle show and show me all then horned Limis, Simis, gerts, beefmasters, and Herefords. The only ones you will likely see horns on are the Longhorn...and that is cause it's included in their judging of the animal. How many horned steers you see at shows? If if you think you don't take a discount in the sale barn? Try dehorning those cattle and give them time to get over the stress, then see if they don't bring more per lb in the sale barn compared to their horned contemporaries. P.S. I love the look of a good Horned bull, but that don't make it economically practical. [/QUOTE]
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