Hardware store find??

[aa battery]

Found this thing in a 90 year old hardware store that was going to be torn down.Does anybody know what it is.

 

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[PBK]

It's a calf weaner.

 

[aa battery]

Uuuuumm if you say so PBK

 

[PBK]

Check out Lot #8 at:

http://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=4182


Here's a modern plastic version:

http://www.enasco.com/ProductDetail.do?sku=C18349N

 

[CarolinaDigs]

Interesting AA , Looks painful

 

[wesfrye53]

I know the balls fit in the calf's nostrils...wonder what the spikes are for? Possibly to keep the calk from nursing? If so, then I wonder how the thing stayed in place!

 

[aa battery]

PBK how do you know all this stuff??

 

[Gypsy Heart]

PBK is correct.....I grew up on a ddairy farm and thats exactly what it is

 

[savant365]

So if the balls went in the calf's nostrils did the spikes poke the mother when the calf tried to nurse?...HOLEY COW!!!

 

[River Rat]

Yep, that's what it is and yep they work too. They're used when the calf is older and eating grass/feed/hay but still wanting to nurse. I think the longest it took to break a calf from nursing was like 2 weeks.

RR