Muted Cowhorns

[Bob Norton]

We used a de-horning tool, not completely unlike a pipe cutter. You do it
when the cows are young heifers and the horns are just horn buds. They bled
profusely until you slathered on a caustic paste that stanched the blood
flow and prevented regrowth by destroying certain cells at the base of the
horns. I don't recall any other details as it's been almost 40 years since
I last did this.

At 01:20 PM 6/17/97 PST, you wrote:
>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.