Cattle dehorning tool - GIF and patents

[Jon]

Cattle dehorning tool. A visually unsettling practice that actually promotes animal welfare, by preventing injury to other cattle caused by horns.





Dehorner



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Dehorning Tool


Previously:

Cow carcass boats - photos
Cattle-powered sugar cane press - GIF
Tiger Moth biplane hits cow on landing
Cow cleaner GIF

[Frank S]

My grandpa would have filled that guys pants with buckshot for releasing that animal without packing the stubs with a salve and tar first. those open wounds were a breeding ground for what we called horn flys. they would lay their eggs and the larva would would eat their way out of the scabs opening the wounds again for more eggs to be laid. keeping the wounds infected.
The best solution was to raise Herferd or Angus NO Horns.

[Drew1966]

My grandpa would have filled that guys pants with buckshot for releasing that animal without packing the stubs with a salve and tar first. those open wounds were a breeding ground for what we called horn flys. they would lay their eggs and the larva would would eat their way out of the scabs opening the wounds again for more eggs to be laid. keeping the wounds infected.
The best solution was to raise Herferd or Angus NO Horns.

Hear hear. Not to mention the pain the animal has been put through unnecessarily. There are quite a few breeds without horns now, why not just raise them?

[toma]

Much better is to put some protective device on the horns....disgusting !

[jackhoying]

I helped Dad do this many times as a kid, 50 or more years ago. This type of de-horner was actually much more humane than the other version Dad used, which would dig deeper into the base of the horn. Dad did always pour on a concoction of some sort on the wound. Mom definitely had lots of blood to clean out of our clothes after a session of 40 steers!
This was about equal in crudeness to when we helped Dad castrate young male pigs/hogs. Us boys would kneel on the pig and hold the one back leg forward and Dad did his magic with a sharp pocketknife. Sometimes the hogs were bigger and we'd get one heck of a workout!

[Frank S]

I helped Dad do this many times as a kid, 50 or more years ago. This type of de-horner was actually much more humane than the other version Dad used, which would dig deeper into the base of the horn. Dad did always pour on a concoction of some sort on the wound. Mom definitely had lots of blood to clean out of our clothes after a session of 40 steers!
This was about equal in crudeness to when we helped Dad castrate young male pigs/hogs. Us boys would kneel on the pig and hold the one back leg forward and Dad did his magic with a sharp pocketknife. Sometimes the hogs were bigger and we'd get one heck of a workout!

At the blacksmith shop I worked at as a kid we made a dehorn tool similar to that except instead of having a V knife ours was semi elliptical and rotated in like that of a quality cigar nip. It required very little effort to close since the blade rotated and was a lot less stressful on both the animal and the user.
William would often demonstrate it by slicing through a 2" diameter tree limb.

[johnsmachines]

I stopped breeding cattle after watching a dehorning. Incredibly cruel, disgusting practice. No wonder the movement against eating meat is the fasting growing movement in the world.