10/25/13, 10:25 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, CANADA
Posts: 931
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She did GREAT!
A few years back I had another adult Jersey dehorned, these are cows that I have bought with head gear, I always dehorn my babies!
When I had Mabel done the vet knocked her right out with rompin and sawed them off. Then used a dehorning iron to cauterize the bleeding area, which was not much of a area.
Yesterday when he did Lily-Mae (same vet) I had her standing in the head lock, he gave her a shot of local anesthetic into each temple area, went back to his truck to get the wire saw, came back she was numb. I held her halter over in one direction, he sawed them off. Then he used his hemostats to reach into the bleeding area and pull out the veins. Her biggest concern was getting a mouth full of hay in between horns. He was running behind on appointments, so he did not stay for the normal B.S. but he came up and was gone in about 15 minutes. Last night Lily-Mae came in for milking, into the same head lock she was dehorned in, was quite happy o stand and be milked and the same thing this morning. She has not acted any different.
The biggest reason for getting it done was last week she stick a horn into Mabel's vaginal wall and tore her up really bad!!! Luckily the canal it's self was not damaged. When I first saw it I thought dogs had got into the field and chewed on her!!!! As I was running for my gun and yelling profanities on the phone while telling my husband. He calmly said, are the other cows all ok.... yes they were so he said Could Lily have got her with her horn...... I went back for another look and realized I could calm down and wait for the vets to open up to come reconstruct Mabel's vag!
A few months back, the kids had the pony tied up and were grooming him, I heard a scream, Lily-Mae was hitting him HARD with her horns tossing him around, poor pony was tied. Kids were FREAKING out! I flew at her with a 2x4 and Luckily the pony was ok, really bruised up but she was hitting hit ribs, if she had of gotten be farther back he would have been dead!
Take your vets advice and take the head gear off your cow! It only takes one wrong move and you can and will have large unnecessary vet bills!
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