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Northeast Iowa | I had a landlord with beef cows and draft horses years ago who always told me to castrate, wean and dehorn "during the dark of the moon." He said the males wouldn't bleed and the calves/colts would wean almost in total silence, not with a multi-day festival of bellering like usual. He had polled cattle, so the dehorning issue was never a consideration.
Never was able to get the chute work scheduled when the moon was in the right phase, but I always thought it would be interesting to try, especially at the end of day two after weaning.
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best time to castrear and dehorn?
