Dr. Heather Schlesser, a dairy expert from UW-Extension joined NewsChannel 7 at Noon on Friday to discussing dehorning and disbudding calves and why it's important to do so. Disbudding is removing the ...

Producers with horned cattle should develop and implement a dehorning plan that improves efficiency and animal well being, Oklahoma State University experts said. “A successful plan involves the use ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Food manufacturers and restaurants are taking the dairy industry by the horns on an animal welfare issue that's bothered activists but is little known to consumers: the painful ...

The use of pain relief during castration and dehorning of calves on commercial beef operations can be limited by constraints associated with the delivery of analgesic agents. As topical anaesthetic ...

To assess the effects of a topical anaesthetic (TA) and buccal meloxicam (BM) on behaviour, maximum wound temperature and wound morphology following amputation dehorning of beef calves, 50 unweaned ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Food manufacturers and restaurants are taking the dairy industry by the horns on an animal welfare issue that’s long bothered activists but is little known to consumers: the painful ...

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 ...