Sounds like you can use hoof trimmers for tipping the horns. Four to six weeks for healing

Eric

I agree with teresa, a friend of mine just had a bad experience about banding the horns on a full grown goat. while he was changing the band, the goat jerke back and the horn broke off and bled quite a bit. the goat survived but she was a week away from kidding and so she is very sickly I guess from losing so much blood. My neighbors filed their goat's hornes down, and they started growing away from the head, they filed at a 45' angle pointing away from the skull and the horn started growing that direction. Wierd looking now, but it saved its life.

Yes you can continue to trim about an inch off monthly. I would probably stop when you start getting to the wider part of the horn. Also you will probably have to use bolt cutters, you WILL NOT be able to use hoof trimmers that are made for goats unless they are super powerful. I've actually had someone tell me you can cut off as much as 2 inches at a time, but for the sake of not drawing blood we only take off a inch at a time. We raise meat goats and I personally have no use for horns so we disbud at a young age. We have had a couple dehorned when their horns were about 3 inches long and no it is not a bloody mess if you get a vet that knows what they're doing. But on 2 of the goats we dehorned, the holes got infected which was a horrible mess.

We had that happen to one doe and cut it down with a wire saw. It continued to grow back so she went to sausage. You could have a vet remove it so it won't come back. Tom

I wouldn't do it