Muted Cowhorns

[Mandricard at aol.com]

Er, If you really want to know, generally it is done to the young cows when
hornless. One takes a hot iron and burns the horn generating on heir skulls.
It is not pleasant, yet much more so than de-horning an adult, which is done
with a tool that looks like a 2-foot long pair of pincers, and which you
basically cut off the horns and gouge out the tissue that generates them. It
is not a pleasant sight: there is a blood vessel the size of your index
finger going into the horn which makes the entire experience scarlet and very
messy. The cow, bull, or steer, does not  appreciate it much either, and has
to be tied down.

Sorry to ruin your lunch.

M

In a message dated 6/20/97 4:27:27 AM, MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu 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.