What Is It??

[Ah Pook]

Title says it all.

http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL686/2648371/6918264/402637866.jpg

[islandermyk]

wtf?!

piercing accessories, lol?!

Looks med-evilish to me...

[lv2tinker]

We put these in the calf’s nose when we needed to wean them from their mothers.
Believe me; the mom cow would kick the snot out of them when they tried to suck.

True story from an ‘old’ cow hand.

[joeyshoe]

looks like a spiked calf weaner to me. :0

dang, too late....second place?

[sniper7]

Im going to go with a bovine or equestrian weaner.

[Danimal]

Man, if I had a nickel for every time I ran into a spiked calf weaner... I would have exactly 5 cents.

[Irving]

Secondary use as caltrops?

[Ah Pook]

A lot more weaners here than I would have thought. :D

These nose rings are for weaning calves. Clamp them to the calves' nose and when they go to feed on mom's udder, the spike poke her. Found them in a cabin, at a mill site, near Granite. Didn't find out what they were for years. Showed them to an old farmer and he told me more about them than I ever really wanted to know.

Thank you for playing.