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Title: Trimming tusks Post by: curdawgs on March 21, 2011, 02:30:13 pm Any tips for trimming tusks? I'd like to hear different technics? Or if you'd rather trim or let em grow?
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: Purebreedcolt on March 21, 2011, 02:32:16 pm I do for pen hogs a good set of hoof trimmers work well
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: curdawgs on March 21, 2011, 02:35:17 pm all the way to the gum?
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: sfboarbuster on March 21, 2011, 02:54:35 pm Knock em off with a hammer
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: TX HOG on March 21, 2011, 02:57:03 pm Bolt cutters
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: Purebreedcolt on March 21, 2011, 03:37:34 pm Ahhh never thaught about bolt cutters will have to try that next time yeah take them down pretty good
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: Texboar on March 21, 2011, 04:05:37 pm We use a small grinder. Round the point of the lower teeth and grind a little from the back side of the top teeth. This will grow long teeth that don't need trimming.
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: Hog_Hunter_57 on March 21, 2011, 04:21:08 pm You cut them off at the gum line the hog has no defence and you make a runner out of him hard to bay your dogs on a hag that never sets up. use a grinder and cut them down but not all the way just round them off,and it is smooth. Bolt cutters leave sharp edges that can still cut your dogs i only know because we did it.
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: curdawgs on March 21, 2011, 04:36:31 pm so what, grind them down to an 1/2 inch or what? When rounded off they wont cut or puncture your dog?
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: lazyM on March 21, 2011, 04:43:09 pm use bolt cutters almost to the gum the smooth them down with a file
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: BIG CHRIS on March 21, 2011, 05:56:51 pm not sure what the stuff is called but u use it to cut pvc pipe, its a wire that has sharp burs all over it cut the tusk 1/4 to a half inch what ever u prefer and then round off with a hoof rasp, i know an old man that runs a bay pen and thats how he does it
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: redtick23 on March 21, 2011, 06:18:11 pm i put them in a calf table and use a rasp to take the point down to about 1/2 inch across and a hog with teeth can still hurt you dog but not as east though
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: Bo Pugh on March 21, 2011, 06:34:18 pm just leave the bottom teeth and cut out the top teeth all the way to the gum and let him go
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: TJR89 on March 21, 2011, 06:48:33 pm never don it out in the woods but when we put hogs in the bay pen at the house we used a set of tree loppers. they worked real well and never had a dog get cut by what was left over of the teeth
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: T-Bob Parker on March 21, 2011, 07:25:09 pm I've never done it but I gotta ask, with the cutters or the loppers, do the teeth just crunch and crumble? Also doesn't this leave exposed nerve endings and keep them from eating? Arent they hollow at the gums.
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: Bo Pugh on March 21, 2011, 07:48:45 pm we cut ours with bolt cutters or the short blade limb trimmers, and sometimes they will kinda crack and bust apart and sometimes they will cut off smooth, yea their hollow down in the gum not at the gumline where you cut them at, if you leave the bottom teeth the bottom teeth will grow out and get real long usually curl back and wont be dangerous just long
Title: Re: Trimming tusks Post by: ChaseG on March 21, 2011, 10:24:43 pm Knock em off with a hammer That's what we've always done |