We dehorned cattle when I was growing up on a farm. It is a pretty gruesome thing to watch as a young kid. These were full grown cows that were dehorned.
and you turned out fine
Too bad some people do it that way. Dehorning adults is both, as you said, gruesome and more physically traumatic and bloody to the animal. Burning them off the calves is maybe a 45 second procedure. No blood, just singeing the horn-producing cells so they never grow. Sorry you had to see that. Nothing like that when it’s done in the early months.
[ We dehorned cattle when I was growing up on a farm. It is a pretty gruesome thing to watch as a young kid. These were full grown cows that were dehorned. ]
Been there seen that growing up, LOTS of blood....
And bellowing...
Cows head hoes into chute and a special think moves over and you immobilize the cows head then the horns are sawed off with a hand saw!!! then the vein for the horn is grabbed with some forceps and ripped out of the horn stump!!!!!
Seems grossly brutal until you realize that a cow without horns cannot gore another cow with them for the hell of it...