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THE EFFECTS OF DISHORNING. 
Does II Injure the Bull? 
Have you known of any cases where dis¬ 
horning has apparently injured a bull for 
breeding purposes, and would you advise re¬ 
moving horns from a mature animal? 
We have dishorned bulls of different 
ages, and in one instance only did we no¬ 
tice any bad effects. This one, a three- 
year-old, seemed very much depressed and 
very inactive for some little time but 
soon came around all right and as good 
aj ever. e. h. knapp & son. 
I do not dishorn my bulls, conse¬ 
quently do not have experience. I have 
always understood, however, that where 
the bulls were dishorned that they were 
not so good for breeding until they re¬ 
covered from the temporary set-back 
given them by the dishorning process, but 
that after the stumps were fully healed 
they were equally as good as they were 
before they were dishorned. 
w. w. CIJENEY. 
I do not think that dishorning a bull 
should have any effect on his breeding 
qualities after sufficient time to recover 
from the shock. On an aged bull with 
heavy horns, whose vitality may be from 
other causes somewhat weakened, it might 
have a weakening effect until complete 
recovery. After the operation the bull 
should have good feed and good care and 
light use until well, when there should 
be no bad effect. j. w. martin. 
My experience in dishorning bulls has 
always been favorable. If I raise them 
from calves I kill the horn when about 
one week old with caustic potash. I 
shave off the hair just where the horn 
starts; one very light application ends 
the growth of the horn. I have also had 
two two-year-old bulls dishorned. In 
each case it has done no injury to them, 
either as to their fertility or activeness, 
and the calves have always grown well 
and were lively. G. w. higgins. 
I have had no experience with dishorn¬ 
ing a bull and do not feel qualified to say 
that dishorning injures the bull for breed¬ 
ing purposes. There are many breeds, 
and it is especially true of the Guernsey 
where the color and shape of horns are 
considered of great importance in the scale 
of points. Personally I dislike to dishorn | 
and would do so only on the grounds of 
safety in handling the animal. Generally 
speaking, I should consider that anything 
which detracted from the snap and vigor 
of the animal lessen his chances of being 
a prepotent sire. wm. h. caldwell. 
I have never known a case of injury 
for breeding purposes by dishorning a 
bull or a cow. Many noted Holstein- 
Friesian bulls have been dishorned and 
no suggestion has ever reached me that 
they were injured for breeding purposes 
thereby. So far as I have been able to 
obtain information on this subject dis¬ 
horning usually renders a bull less dan¬ 
gerous to handle, and for this reason I 
would advise dishorning mature bulls that 
show any signs of being dangerous, es¬ 
pecially such as are kept solely for breed¬ 
ing purposes and not for show. 
S. HOXIE. 
Did you ever know a male bird to be¬ 
come infertile because he was dubbed by 
Jack Frost or by a cockfighter? Would 
it not be as good sense to say a bull be¬ 
comes infertile because his horns are 
taken off? T consider it absurd and be¬ 
lieve, more to the point, that he is too fat 
or too run down from excessive use. I 
believe that a bull about four years old 
is not as free in service as when younger, 
but becomes as sure a calf getter after 
that age is past. Wine 29954 was dis¬ 
horned at about 18 months, and lived to 
die of bloat in his twelfth year. I bought 
back his son that is dishorned, and now, 
nearly nine years old, he the past year 
sired calves from cows the other bulls 
could not get in calf. Both these bulls 
at about five years old were shy breed¬ 
er 8 . R. F. SHANNON. 
I have have never had any such ex¬ 
perience. Naturally, a sufficient time must 
be allowed for the animal to recover from 
the shock which inevitably accompanies 
the operation, but when recovered, none 
of the. animals so treated in my herd have 1 
been in the least affected. Bor a time 
the dishorned animals are exceedingly do- ! 
cile and naturally very tender about the j 
head. This condition lasts for months in \ 
the case of a well-grown animal, but is 
Of shorter duration with younger stock. 
I would say that on the average, not more 
than two months will see practically com¬ 
plete recovery from the shock of the oper¬ 
ation, though the tenderness remains a 
much longer time. As a cure for an in¬ 
creasingly ugly disposition nothing seems 
to be better. f. r. hazard. 
I have never dishorned any animal yet. 
I am in favor of having cows dishorned, 
as they run more peaceably together and 
seem to get along much better than with 
horns. I have two service bulls, one has 
horns and the other was dishorned before 
I got him. I do not think it has ever 
hurt him for service in the least, but I 
think I would never have a valuable service 
bull dishorned unless as a last resort if 
he were very ugly. I have heard of cases 
where bulls were dishorned and were not 
as vigorous as before, but this may be 
on account of age or they may not have 
been active generally. I prefer to see the 
horns on, as I think they look much bet¬ 
ter than off, and should always leave them 
on a valuable service bull so as not to 
take any risk. A. A. cortelyou. 
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If you arc going to buy 
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