Muted Cowhorns

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Er, bob, a small question: how do you do that? Dehorn a cow, I mean.  Do you get 'em 
when they're young?I had a friend once who declawed her cat--neither
 the cat, named *Mu* (no, actually, it was the COW 
that was named *Mu*) nor I ever forgave her for this heinous deed.

john m
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trhe cowhorn question thickens:
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>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.
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>At 10:06 AM 6/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
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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.
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>>Almost no cows these days are "de-horned".  If you want a cow without
>>horns, you breed stock which doesn't grow them.
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