A Beginner’s Guide of Dehorning with Calf Dehorning

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A Beginner’s Guide of Dehorning with Calf Dehorning There have been plenty of incidents which feature the story of dehorning and tail docking various New York dairy farms. Each and every story heard is bad with good outcome being that our industry is forced to examine the routine procedures performed on farms. This cannot be done unless a concern regarding cost, difficulty or time is needed for doing the procedure. This was not initially acceptable but now it may be useful.

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Dehorning is very necessary procedure on almost any dairy farm sometimes with the help of calf dehorner. There are many who agree that dehorning is important. But there may be a doubt on the procedure with several reasons for this. There should not any reliable way for measuring pain. Scientist will measure blood cortisol level and behavioral changes with the measures being just proxies. This cannot


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