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Vicki,

Thanks for the info, so nice to learn from a voice of experience. “Annie” was a year old in February. You are right, her horns grew an amazing amount over the past summer, as did she. I have to laugh when I see her sometimes, as she looks almost surprised. Her horns are 8 – 10 inches from the base to tip, spread about that far too, and have the slightest curve out then straight up from her curly head! She is quite adept at using them too. She is the low man on the totem pole in our “herd” (2 steers and another cow) and she uses them to get our mini donkey to back off (he thinks he is king).

The outsides of the horns are dull and peeling looking, I think I will try sanding them a bit, and maybe be a little more aggressive on the “off side” and just wait and see. My daughter shows her, as do I, and I am planning to order some horn knobs, as shows require they be knobbed or tipped, and personally I think cutting them down to big ends looks shabby.

I will try to figure out how to post a picture of her horns, maybe that will help explain why I would like to modify their growth a bit.

Thanks again!
Tonya
Middle Age Spread Dexters
March Hares Rabbitry
http://www.MarchHaresRabbitry.com

[March Hare]

I saw the reply regarding scraping with a knife on the side of the horn you want them to grow away from, but how deep do you scrape. I have a Dexter heifer whose crazy horns grow pretty much straight up. So we want to turn them out and down, then eventually the tips inward… Therefore I am guessing to start, we want to scrape on the inner aspect of the base of each horn, but how much area, and how deep to scrape. Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Tonya
Middle Age Spread Dexters
March Hares Rabbitry

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