Comment on Time to grow up.

• alloloto@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Huh. TIL

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  • bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You don’t usually see female cows with horns, since they get burnt off shortly after birth with either fire or acid.

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    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      That’s sad. I’d like to stop learning now.

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      • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Sometimes they regrow and get burnt off multiple times.

        If they’d allow the horns to grow, it would be impossible to keep so many cows in the same area. The one with the biggest horns would bully all the others and a lot of cows will get hurt. If there are multiple with big horns, they fight for dominance. They keep getting into fights till one of them is killed.

        Sometimes the horns keep growing and the animal needs to go to the slaughter because of it. Each time the horns are burnt off it’s a chance to get infected, so you can’t keep doing it. If you let it grow in a case like this, the growth is uncontrolled and would most likely curl up and grow into the cows head, causing all sorts of problems. So a cow like that isn’t useful for growing more cows and producing milk, it’s only purpose would be to get slaughtered and provide meat.

        The more you learn about animal farming, the more you want to become a vegan.

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      • HardlightCereal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Cows only produce milk when they’ve recently had a baby, so farmers get their cows pregnant every year. The females become the new milking cows, and the males go into the grinder. The males aren’t used for meat because different breeds are used for milk than for meat.

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      • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Nah. It’s to avoid accidents with holes in cows.

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      • abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        It’s not as bad as that. Dehorning is one of the “worst” things in dairy farming, and it is done to ***save *** pain and lives.

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    • A_Menace_To_Society@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Dude, most vets I have seen just use a horn popper that shears the growth point off of the skull

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    • abraxas@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Cows are dehorned because they will literally murder each other.

      Most farms dehorn cows in ways and times to make the pain minimal.

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• Piemanding@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Those horns are pretty huge for a cow.

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  • oldGregg@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    image

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    • AllBlue22@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Great comeback!

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  • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    No bull.

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