Re: [CBQ] Re: Question

[STEVEN HOLDING <sholding@sbcglobal.net>]

On the range the horns were to protect themselves.  When loaded in stock cars there was the problem of closeness and damage to other cattle.  For Horned cattle often at an early age caustic was rubbed on to stop the growth of horns.  Or if the use of a dehorner was used to remove the horn.  One time I unloaded a load of cows(both sex would have horns) and they were huge.  The story went around some head shrinker from Chicago had a farm west of Aurora and would buy these old cows to lose money on feeding them out.  Any way the vet shows up and runs them thru a chute and with a HUGE set of bolt cutters proceeded to cut the horns off.  He started in a nice clean set of white scrubs and the blood squirted out every where as the beast bellowed and he would shove a cotton ball dipped in silver powder to stop the blood in the hole the horn was cut off.
There is also Polled cattle which naturally do not have horns thus you can have both Herefords with horns or Polled Herefords.  Angus are naturally polled.  And if you look at old photos the cattle(just like people) were a lot smaller.
Thinking of Dutch Belts or Belted Galloways but lack of fence precludes that project for now
Steve in SC

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From: dieselpop1 <dieselpop1@msn.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, January 25, 2013 2:25:20 PM
Subject: [CBQ] Re: Question

 

When I was a boy 60+ years ago cattle without horns were called muleys.
W. D. Hoy

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" wrote:
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> I think you got it…..the only reference to “Mulely” on the internet that made sense was a name applied to a Holstein cow with no horns. Mule Deer are also so nicknamed and I don’t know if they have antlers or not (being a city boy!).
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> I think it was a carry over (most of the railroaders back then had been raised on a farm) of the term used to discribe cows with no horns.
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> --- On Fri, 1/25/13, HOL WAGNER wrote:
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> From: HOL WAGNER
> Subject: [CBQ] Question
> To: "CB&Q Group"
> Date: Friday, January 25, 2013, 9:07 AM
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> Here's a question that hopefully someone out there (John Mitchell?) can answer: Early in the 20th century, both side door cabooses (not just Q waycars) and baggage cars without end platforms were said to have "muley ends." Why??
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