Dehorning calves can be a controversial topic. Steve Judge, a long-time micro dairy farmer, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of dehorning. It seems like every twenty years or so the ...

bottle-calf nutrition, dehorning, and when to wean calves with a bottle calf feeding schedule from the first feeding to 3 months. So you want to raise a small herd (maybe just two or three head ...

Proper cattle management is essential for Ugandan livestock farmers to ensure productivity, safety, and profitability. One critical practice is dehorning, which prevents injuries among cattle and ...

Today, that situation has changed in many operations, so the calves are “preconditioned” before marketing. Preconditioning is a program often considered to include castration, dehorning ...

In a decade from now, might we reflect on this article as “the days when we talked about horned genetics” in dairy cattle? It ...

A study published in the academic journal Science has found that cutting off the horns of rhinos in Africa leads to a reduction in poaching of the endangered species.

Poll cattle — animals bred without horns ... bred out of them They are breeding out the controversial practice of dehorning, using genetics to produce animals that do not grow horns.