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Dehorning a few

MN Farm Girl

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In the chute. We sorted them from here.

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The first victim

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The buttons weren't big enough to cut so we just burned them with the electric dehorner.

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Victim number 2.

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All snubbed down. His buttons were bigger than the other one.

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Instead of using a hack saw to take them off we used someone's advice from here to use a wiresaw. And a special thank you to that person. There was hardly any bleeding.

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Burning the place where the horn used to be.

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Know the other side.

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Cows all excited.

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The head table we use to snub their heads down.

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The "newbie" to the operation. Chet is the new puppy he is 8 months old and already weighs around 70 pounds. Saved him from the local veterinary clinic. He is black lab, austrailian (sp?) shepard cross

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Dad and his branding iron of choice.
 

leanin' H

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Thanks for the great pictures MN Farm girl! We try to keep the horns off at birth by breeding but now and then we get one. Looks like ya did a fine job and your calves aren't nearly as horny! :oops: :wink: :D
 

Big Muddy rancher

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That is an interesting head table, our old chute had a real good head restaint but our new chute while it works great doesn't haqve anything but neck extenders to hold the head.
 

Silver

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That is a pretty slick looking rig, I may have to infringe on the copyright. I'm not sure about having the head upright for this operation, although I suppose I could get used to it. We always slip a rope halter on, twist the head as sideways as possible, and tie it up. But now you've got me thinking....
Thanks for the pics.
 
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Guest

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We always use two 15 cm. long sticks tied at the end of the wiresaw so you have a good grip.
 

Denny

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Your dog looks to be a Blue Heeler /Australian Shepard cross a friend of mine has one pretty good dog.

I guess you now have "Shorthorns on yer Shorthorns"
 

Texan

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Brad S said:
You should look into a set of MooreMaker scoops - they'd really simplifythis little job.
I second that, Brad. You'll choke at the price, but once you see the surgical quality of them and feel how heavy they are, you'll understand why they cost so much. And once you use them the first time, you'll wonder why you waited so long to get them.

Here's a link to the size 3 - they've got five different sizes.

http://catalog.mooremaker.com/viewProduct.cfm?item_id=393092


Their knives are as good as you will ever find:

http://catalog.mooremaker.com/browseGroup.cfm?item_group_id=29383


All of the Moore Maker stuff is the best quality that you can find - made for ranchers by a ranching family. This link tells you a little bit more about them:

http://www.mooremaker.com/about.htm
 

Brad S

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Texan, I'd rather choke on the price once than on quality every time you use something. I had a bone handle MooreMaker knife dated 1994, and was thinking about putting it back to give to my boy - sure as hell it slipped out of my hand cutting net wrap in a blizzard and I lost it. I now keep cheap knives arround and save my new Mooremaker as a flesh knife.

My other bad habit is Haptner syringes
 
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