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Faunsdale, AL | I’ve used the keystones very few times in my life. Back in the day, there were always a lot of heifers that had horns big enough to use a smaller size keystone dehorner our vet used to have but then the ones not quite that big he used a large Barnes’ on. The Keystones left the heifer with a nicer shaped poll.
Was working at a sale barn in Tennessee right out of school and a farmer bought some old Herefords that he wanted dehorned before he took them home. I had never even seen a cow that old dehorned before so I grabbed the big keystones and started in on the first one. That was not the right tool for the job! Their horns weren’t big across the base but they were solid bone. I was glad it was only a few of them. I would close the dehorner as far as I could and between the cow struggling in the head catch and me getting tossed around on the other end of the handles, the rest of the horn would crack out of her head and I would move on to the next one. Should have broken out the wire! | |
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Bull Killed My Uncles Brother in 1925
