Why don't female cows have horns? Seemingly would help with predators.?

One possible theory - female cow ancestors (wild cows) did have horns but devolved.

Why don't female cows have horns? Seemingly would help with predators.?
Most female cattle have horns. Some are removed by applying caustic potash when they are calves to dissolve the horns, some are cut off when they are older and some are bred to not have horns - Angus for instance.
Reply:female cows DO have horns. Its just that bulls' horns are more well known.
Reply:In the wild, many female animals that are related to the domestic cow varieties have horns for self defence.


During domestication, dairy cows in particular have been bred by humans to not have horns, to make them easier and less dangerous for us to handle. Some cows still do grow them, but they are removed by the farmer early in the cow's life. It's not a matter of "devolution", just domestication %26amp; selective breeding by humans.
Reply:This is correlated with the male and female sex hormones such as beard at human and others...............................
Reply:All native cows and bulls have horns, vary from breed to an other. Selected breed have no horns because they don't need them like native ones, for defense and for bulls to dominate over the herd.
Reply:All of our cows had horns, some of our bulls didn't





As has been stated cows horns are sometimes removed by various methods


This id done to prevent the cow from harming the calf and because they fit in the automated milking stalls easier without them





They are generally removed for the same reasons steers have the testicles removed


They're not gonna need them and it's just one more thing to get in the way
Reply:Male and female reindeer have horns, but males shed their horns in the fall, while females keep theirs until spring.





This means that the reindeers that pull santa's sleigh are all female.





The other answers are good, and I thought I might never get another chance to share this info.



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