{"id":8804,"date":"2020-05-27T14:12:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/new\/2020\/05\/27\/the-effect-of-horn-trimming-on-calf-health\/"},"modified":"2020-05-27T14:12:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:42:32","slug":"the-effect-of-horn-trimming-on-calf-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/2020\/05\/27\/the-effect-of-horn-trimming-on-calf-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The effect of horn trimming on calf health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Dehorning is done regularly to control cattle more easily and reduce harm to humans and the welfare<br \/>\nand comfort of other cattle. Thermal dehorning, chemical dehorning, removing the horn with pliers, the<br \/>\nbest time is 4-6 weeks when the bud has grown 5-10 mm, which is a stressful and painful operation that<br \/>\ncauses changes in the animal&#8217;s behavior.<br \/>\nBehavioral changes including sleeping and standing time, frequency of tail and ear wagging, kicking and<br \/>\nscratching increase, but eating and ruminating decrease.<br \/>\nPhysiological changes such as cortisol levels in saliva and plasma, heart rate and breathing rate increase,<br \/>\nbut the weight of the animal decreases. Also, the self-treatment behavior of the animal increases in<br \/>\nhorn burning with hot iron, but decreases in horn burning with self-treatment ointment. We must know<br \/>\nthat Ruminant animals feel and understand the pain a few days after birth. In burning the horn with<br \/>\niron, behavioral changes can be seen up to 4 hours after that, and it causes damage to the skin around<br \/>\nthe horn.<br \/>\nA deep wound is created in the dehorning with the ointment, and we must be careful that the ointment<br \/>\nis only applied to the same area so as not to damage another place.<br \/>\nDehorning with tongs takes 4 to 6 hours and causes damage to the skin and bone of the cow&#8217;s head and<br \/>\nsinuses in front of the cow&#8217;s forehead. The wound left is deep and wide.<br \/>\nRemoving the horn increases the level of cortisol, for example, in the case of burning of the horn with<br \/>\nointment, cortisol is increased for one hour and remains at its peak for about 4-24 hours later, it returns<br \/>\nto the initial cortisol level, which is very stressful and accompanied by a lot of pain. In the hot iron<br \/>\nmethod, cortisol It increases slightly in the blood and reaches its peak after 30 minutes and returns to<br \/>\nnormal after 2-4 hours.<br \/>\nLidocaine should be used to reduce pain, and it is preferable to use the hot iron method with the<br \/>\npresence of a veterinarian and the use of anesthesia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dehorning is done regularly to control cattle more easily and reduce harm to humans and the welfare and comfort of other cattle. Thermal dehorning, chemical dehorning, removing the horn with pliers, the best time is 4-6 weeks when the bud has grown 5-10 mm, which is a stressful and painful operation that causes changes in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,426],"tags":[468,470,440,437,469,466,467],"class_list":["post-8804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-en","category-research-and-development-en","tag-burning-horns-with-a-hot-iron","tag-cortisol-hormone","tag-horn-burning-methods","tag-horn-burning-ointment","tag-reduction-of-burning-pain","tag-remove-the-horn","tag-thermal-horn-device"],"views":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dama-arya.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}