Sculling cattle prices

Sculling cattle is illegal in Ireland and can only be done by your Vet. So best advice is to contact your Vet for costs/charges.

Edit - I've just edited this post to link our resident Vet who will have more knowledge than me.

Link @greysides

What has the price got to do with it so? The vets won't do it so who are you going to be paying?

The Vet uses a stronger anaesthetic- it's not available on prescription.

Has there been a change in rules re marketing cattle with horns, I see some going through the marts on LSL.

We did enough of it years ago… awful job. Seen la forge farm video about a year or so ago where he had his angle grinder modified to do it… some job. Done in a mili- second. No stress on man … can’t vouch for the beast…

I saw one of these being used on a farm, it's so quick that the operator didn't even have to hold the beast it went through the horn so quick.

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it’s usually me that needs an anesthetic while dehorning calves.
I’ve one of the condron crates and I put brackets onto it to take sheep gates. It’s a simple thing but I’d far less fighting getting them into the crate.
I don’t agree with skulling but I use the pipes when I do miss one and find they are fairly easy once the animal is well restrained. If I’ve no one to help I put a halter on and will put a tight stretch and it makes life simple. It’s slow if you’ve a few but thankfully I rarely need to do it the last few years.

Dangerous having stock with horns.

Had a cow that missed dehorning as she was a small calf. She grew up to be a bully then. Other cows you'd hear a pain roar in the winter time in the shed as you'd know she was sticking them in their sides. Was calving a cow in the loose shed and a black cow came up to investigate and the calving cow took fright as she thought it was the cow with horns. The horns were taken off and all the stock became calmer in the place.

Don'tknow the price, but am sure it's considered a vetinery procedure.

One old lad here used to let vets do it with herd test, young vet arrived out and swore it'll never happen again, now the vet arrives out end of April and dehorns all the calves.