Old Tools

[SETX]

Pipe wrench and dehorners. Imagine using either all day!

 

[jeffcat]

How many of you have seen the aftermath of a "dehorning" tool? Looks like a war zone. Blood all over the place and some really peoded calfs.

 

[SETX]

Lord I have. Dehorn, slap a gob of grease in the hole to stop the squirting and keep the flies out. The ground would be slippery.

Those dehorners were my grandfathers. Mine are much lighter.

 

[jeffcat]

Man now I want to barf. Had a couple of calves that had partial growth horns. Neighbor came over and he and dad went to it.

 

[2x4]

We used pine pitch to stop the bleeding. It came in a can about the size of a Campbells Soup can.

 

[JayinNY]

Iv never seen it, my ex father in law dehorned his calves with a dehorning iron, one more thing I don?t miss doing! My cows were polled Herefords, so they had no horns, A friend of mine has 26 charlois he keeps bugging me to do chores for him, I don?t want anything to do with cows anymore, until I have to raise another steer to put in the freezer, give me a couple of off the track nut job high strung mares on the end of a lead shank any day! Lol😂

 

[SVcummins]

Use to dehorn a lot but haven?t in years everything bred polled these big dehorners like this are for tipping cow horns you don?t take off enough to get into the blood just to make em so they aren?t sharp . Dehorning calves can be pretty bloody but usually try not to cut that deep but when they are just buttons you can get into blood pretty easy if your not careful . Use to cut a lot of big bull calves to but finally got a deal that uses a big piece of surgical tubing instead

 

[woodbutcher]

According to an animal science professor I used to know, you should go close enough to the skull to get a quarter inch of hide and hair. I've always tried to get them to that point, and I've never had any that developed scurs. It always causes a lot of bleeding, but that is probably worse than it looks.

Butch

 

[Tony in SD]

X2

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

Annual event when my father in law was milking, but I never got to witness it. Had one in the barn but it's gone now. He probably sold it after he gave up the herd. I still have the small dehorner and castrating tool.

 

[john in la]

No blood.
You just need to dehorn when they are young.
I have one like this.

 

[Dusty MI]

I had found that dehorned as calves, they grow up to be just as mean but without their horns. If left to grow up with their horns, then dehorn, they loose their meanness along with their horns.

Dusty

 

[muleboss]

(quoted from post at 23:02:24 12/20/19) How many of you have seen the aftermath of a "dehorning" tool? Looks like a war zone. Blood all over the place and some really peoded calfs.
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Have you ever seen a war zone?

 

[in-too-deep]

God help me if I ever have to reach for those cutters. Dehorning with the the folding clamshell type is bad enough. Luckily, we only have a couple per year.