Update on Annie's Horns

A few weeks ago we posted about our experiment using a band castrator to dehorn Annie.  Annie is Nellie's little girl and she's got some 3 1/2 inch horns that are pointed and dangerous.  Dangerous to your eyes as she is always curiously darting back and forth and could easily gore you in the eye if you're not paying attention and then dangerous to her as I've had to rescue her from being caught in the fence.  She could have hanged herself if I wasn't around.

So as we showed in this post that you can read about if you haven't read it already, we used a band castrator to apply thick rubber bands around Annie's horns to remove the horns slowly.  This morning I noticed something looked different about one of Annie's horns.

One horn is leaning over

I got close to Annie and Lili as they were munching on some Bermuda grass hay to inspect Annie.

Annie's left horn is about to fall off

Her horn has been almost cut in half and is leaning over.  Although it is about to fall off, I read that you are NOT to pull on it or attempt to break it off as this would cause bleeding.  You've got to be patient.

Finally a close-up of the horn.  No blood.  The band has constricted the horn and has almost cut it off completely.  In a few days it should fall off.

One horn almost cut off - no blood, no mess, no pain

After I took this picture I checked on her right horn and the band was well inside of the horn.  I estimate it will start leaning over and will fall off in another week or two. Annie will look a lot different and it will be hard to tell her and her mom, Nellie apart once she's 'horn-less.'