Debudding, as in horn removal Options

[CircuitBoyBlue]

My roomate's got this goal of one day owning a goat farm, and she's always reading these goat books. The other day she was reading one that teaches how to "debud" goats. This is a process where I think you take a hot iron to the buds on a baby goat that will eventually turn into horns, and it keeps them from turning into horns. Seemed to me to be cruel, and I probably wouldn't have the stomach for it, but then, I don't have the stomach to visit the suburbs, either. I guess there's differing schools of thought on the debudding issue, and the book laid out some of the pros and cons, but whether or not goats should be debudded isn't the question I want to get into here.

Does anyone see this being done to Troll babies? Any parent is going to want their baby to fit in as much as possible, and I can easily see a lot of parents thinking "well, at least he doesn't have to have ram horns." Also, I can see a lot of meta-haters encouraging (or forcing) the practice, because if your enemy is going to be 12 ft. tall and have the strength of 3 men, it would be nice if he didn't also have horns (which are basically a weapon that can't be taken away short of sawing them off). If you're going to exploit Trolls for menial labor, I can see it making your scummy life easier if the "workers" had bumps instead of weapons on their head.

Also, a wacky idea: not being a goat farmer, I have no idea how feasible this is, but maybe it would be possible to partially stunt the growth of the horns in a controlled manner, and end up with sort of bonsai horns for extra badassery points.