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<blockquote data-quote="djinwa" data-source="post: 1302167" data-attributes="member: 8265"><p>First off, most businesses don't criticize their customers, but try to give them what they want, which makes them more money.</p><p></p><p>Doesn't seem that crazy to me to believe dehorning and castrating is cruel. There is pain involved, and if done to a human, we would agree it is cruel. Not saying it isn't necessary, but we could at least avoid pain when we can. Most the time reducing stress and pain is good for the animals and the owner's bottom line. For example, most of us now understand we need to handle cattle more gently to reduce stress, and the immunosuppression and illness that follows. Most realize that beating and hot shots are not great. But years ago cattlemen probably resisted the critics against them. Playing cowboy was the "true" way to do it.</p><p></p><p>I was on another site where someone had a Holstein bull calf they got for beef, but it was 9 months old. Many recommended castration, but it was pointed out that at that age there would be pain for a few weeks and stress, and it wouldn't gain much for a few months. Obviously would have been better to castrate when baby calf, but if we don't consider the negatives, many people will wait and cause significant stress and pain that is unnecessary.</p><p></p><p>Likewise, if it isn't any more work to have polled cattle, why not go that route and avoid pain as Supa Dexta mentioned.</p><p></p><p>And to stir things up further, we could have promoted red angus over blacks and avoided more heat stress, but we didn't care.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djinwa, post: 1302167, member: 8265"] First off, most businesses don't criticize their customers, but try to give them what they want, which makes them more money. Doesn't seem that crazy to me to believe dehorning and castrating is cruel. There is pain involved, and if done to a human, we would agree it is cruel. Not saying it isn't necessary, but we could at least avoid pain when we can. Most the time reducing stress and pain is good for the animals and the owner's bottom line. For example, most of us now understand we need to handle cattle more gently to reduce stress, and the immunosuppression and illness that follows. Most realize that beating and hot shots are not great. But years ago cattlemen probably resisted the critics against them. Playing cowboy was the "true" way to do it. I was on another site where someone had a Holstein bull calf they got for beef, but it was 9 months old. Many recommended castration, but it was pointed out that at that age there would be pain for a few weeks and stress, and it wouldn't gain much for a few months. Obviously would have been better to castrate when baby calf, but if we don't consider the negatives, many people will wait and cause significant stress and pain that is unnecessary. Likewise, if it isn't any more work to have polled cattle, why not go that route and avoid pain as Supa Dexta mentioned. And to stir things up further, we could have promoted red angus over blacks and avoided more heat stress, but we didn't care. [/QUOTE]
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