I'm looking for plain,raw [cheap priced]goat horns to make into priming horns.I already have gotten cow horns for $2.00@,but I need smaller horns. Thanks.

-- Karl P.Bechler (kbechler@frontiernet.net), February 10, 2002

Answers

If you need them in any quantity, you are either going to have to start raising meat goats or find someone who butchers a lot of horned goats, maybe an ethnic butcher. I assume you would want them already cleaned(i.e. not just sawed off the goat's head with tissue and bone still inside the horn)?

Speaking only for myself, it would not be worth my time to cook and clean the horns at $2 or less apiece, unless I had a great big kettle of them. And how it would smell! You may be able to get them for free or cheap from a butcher, but chances are you would have to collect a bunch (freeze them until you have a lot) and cook and clean them yourself.

-- Rebekah (nomail@thanx.net), February 10, 2002.

You might try contacting the local vets. They do a lot of dehorning at their shops and would probably do goats every once in a while.

-- r.h. in okla. (rhays@sstelco.com), February 10, 2002.

What's a priming horn? Just curious here.

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), February 11, 2002.