Drinking horns

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Grey Templar wrote:
unmercifulconker wrote:
Cheers guys, so de-horning is done when they are calves? how long can their horns grow when they are a calf as you can buy drinking horns which are 20"+

I read on a couple of sites that you know, the horns are produced fairly and from bulls which go to the slaughterhouse but I dont 100% trust the words on the website haha so was just wondering if anyone has bought one before. I would think amazon would be quite reliable?

Aye I do love tankards and steins too but wanted to add something else to the collection

Trying to think where else I can ask around haha as none of my friends or family own one, I think I am the only one who is in to those types of things

Calves won't have any horns when they get dehorned. Just small little bumps under the skin. Dehorning involves cauterizing the hornbud. A little blood and thats it really.

As for the websites claiming they are from bulls that go to slaughterhouse, I imagine its from outside the US, but I doubt they would have any reason to lie. Bulls are dangerous animals and are usually dehorned because of that because of safety concerns, in the US anyway. and even without their horns Dairy Bulls are still the most dangerous animal in north america.

Removing the horns from a live cow wouldn't be an inhumane thing to do. Cattle have almost no pain receptors on the top of their heads because they use their horns for fighting. In fact most horned mammels have a lack of pain in that area. If they removed the horn partway up and not where it attaches to the skull it would be just like clipping a toenail. Seditives for animals are also cheap and easy to administer.

I've helped a vet with that when I was living in Iowa. We'd run the bulls up a shoot and lock it up behind them when theygot to the top. The vet would reach through behind them and castrate them, then we'd put a ring around the horn and use it to burn off the horn. They seemed indifferent to being castrated, but they'd buck like hell with the dehorning.

**unmercifulconker**

Searched around amazon for horn items and found a game of thrones bone mug made by a company called abbeyhorns, figured amazon would not trade with a comapny who mistreats the animals so I looked at their website and their methods of obtaining the horns seem fine for me and reviews are also positive and although they are a bit more expensive than others I have seen, as long as I know how they have got the horn I am happy, might take a bit to arrive but ill post pics of it when it comes if anyone is interested in drinking horns

**AegisGrimm**

Horns just come from slaughterhouses. Hell, I can buy them from my local Leather Factory store.