Trimming a cow’s horn

Yoooo, that's udderly fascinating! 🐮

I had someone ask about it and what I do with my cattle, so here’s some photos and I’ll talk about how I do it and how the cows respond. Also, don’t mind the barn this was this morning before we did our chores. Adult cattle/large horns: I use a California bander, place two bands below the divet of their horns, like as close to the skull as possible. We place some duct tape and wrap it a few times right above where the banders are placed to prevent rolling. It takes between two and four months for them to fall off, depending on the size of the horn. They show no pain, they spend about ten minutes trying to figure out what we did to their horns once coming out of the head shoot. And then go about their day without a care in the world. It’s typical for them to fall off at different times, sometimes months apart. NEVER REMOVE THE BANDS THAT CAN CAUSE SEPSIS. We double band for this reason.

Horns are wild, but trimming's wild-er! 🤯

Poor cow

Why and how that happens? Doesn't the horns are supposed to grow up???? Instead of growing downwards????

Poor cow

cool nose ring 😎

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I never knew thats how it was done. You learn something new everyday!!

Isn’t there anything better than a string to be used?