Word: dehorning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like Spaghetti. Pretty soft? Instructor Robert Hatch, 34, who holds an M.A. in animal nutrition from the University of Nebraska, showed just how easy the courses are one day recently when he outlined eight ways to dehorn calves, using wall charts of cattle anatomy. Caustic paste on a calf's horn buttons will work, he said, but it can cause sores on the mother cow's udder after nursing. Various gouges and electric burners are also effective, but Hatch advocated a saw. "There may be lots of bleeding," he told students. "If there is, you can clamp...
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