Dehorning calves can be a controversial topic. Steve Judge, a long-time micro dairy farmer, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of dehorning. It seems like every twenty years or so the subject ...

Proper cattle management is essential for Ugandan livestock farmers to ensure productivity, safety, and profitability. One critical practice is dehorning, which prevents injuries among cattle and ...

Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling has just sent a letter on PETA's behalf to the National Milk Producers Federation urging officials to require dairy farmers to begin phasing out "dehorning"—a ...

WE all know the act of dehorning and castrating cattle isn’t pretty, and that’s precisely the reason that Fred Appleton is searching for an alternative. The Alpha cattle producer was last week awarded ...

Queensland graziers Sam and Sarah Becker have spent a decade painstakingly breeding their idea of perfect beef cattle — but one trait they chase never makes it to the plate. Poll cattle — animals bred ...

Dehorning, the confronting and bloody procedure many in the beef industry feared would be its next animal welfare flashpoint, could soon be a thing of the past. A $25 DNA test, which identifies ...

Physical dehorning of dairy cattle is practiced to protect animals and their handlers. Genetic analyses have identified variants that are associated with hornlessness (referred to as 'polled') in ...

Cattle Council president Howard Smith said the gel called Tri-Solfen, available from rural resellers and previously used for castration as well as mulesing, was something “the industry had been ...