Muted Cowhorns

[Bob Norton]

Ah. I spent a good part of my youth working with Holsteins and Jersies on a
dairy farm. We definitely had to dehorn those buggers.

At 10:06 AM 6/16/97 -0400, you wrote:

>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.