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.
the fuck is all this bullshit? do you even know what you’re talking about?
Most breeds maintained in any number in the US these days, typically angus, herefords, and holsteins, have had any visible horns selectively bred out of them. They’re just too hard to keep otherwise. Yes, those with horns do get them docked if necessary- but those breeds are just not that common anymore.
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.
It’s a little better than that, males are kept pent in too small enclosures and fed only milk until they’re too fat to move, THEN they’re slaughtered, because veal is pretty fuckin tasty
bleistift2@feddit.de 3 years ago
You don’t usually see female cows with horns, since they get burnt off shortly after birth with either fire or acid.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 years ago
That’s sad. I’d like to stop learning now.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 3 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.
empireOfLove@lemmy.one 3 years ago
the fuck is all this bullshit? do you even know what you’re talking about?
Most breeds maintained in any number in the US these days, typically angus, herefords, and holsteins, have had any visible horns selectively bred out of them. They’re just too hard to keep otherwise. Yes, those with horns do get them docked if necessary- but those breeds are just not that common anymore.
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 3 years ago
That’s actually patently false. Farmers’ families are very unlikely to become vegan.
TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 3 years ago
None of this bothers me.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 3 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.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 years ago
It’s a little better than that, males are kept pent in too small enclosures and fed only milk until they’re too fat to move, THEN they’re slaughtered, because veal is pretty fuckin tasty
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 3 years ago
This is not true. Dairy Bobby Calves can be used in veal.
Squeamish people being unwilling to eat veal is the main reason that they are not all utilized for that purpose.
federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world 3 years ago
the vast majority of the males are brought to full weight before slaughter
SCB@lemmy.world 3 years ago
Yes farmers are definitely known for maximizing cruelty for giggles over efficiency and profit, and that’s why they murder bulls for fun.
Perhaps have even one conversation with an actual dairy farmer in your life.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 years ago
Nah. It’s to avoid accidents with holes in cows.
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 3 years ago
And intentional attacks with horns. Cows have no problem killing each other, and it’s a baaad death.
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 3 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.
A_Menace_To_Society@lemm.ee 3 years ago
Dude, most vets I have seen just use a horn popper that shears the growth point off of the skull
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 3 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.