Taking the Cow by the Horns

[Sojourner]

At 04:45 PM 6/13/97 -0600, Bob Norton wrote:
>Rest assured, city boy, that both bulls and cows have horns. Domesticated
>cows are usually dehorned for the safety of those who work with them.
>
>At 03:03 PM 6/13/97 PST, MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu wrote:
>>But, Ah thought a *cow* dinna have horns either?  Only Da Bulls?
>>Is why I thought whole thing quite funny off the top. 
>> Well, that's what a three way chat involving the M.Werker will lead to!!
>>But any excuse to consult the good thin Parson's ok by me
>>
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>

No.  I've spent many years on cattle farms.  There are many many breeds of
cattle which (often referred to as "polled") never develop horns, in either
the female or male sex.  It is the breed of cattle which determines the
horns, not the sex.

Almost no cows these days are "de-horned".  If you want a cow without
horns, you breed stock which doesn't grow them.