Polled livestock are livestock without horns, of species that normally have them. The term refers both to breeds or strains which are naturally polled through  selective breeding and also to naturally horned animals which have been dehorned.  Natural polling occurs in cattle and it affects both sexes equally.

Pentervin Polled Blondes

The family farm consists of David and Sadie and their 2 year old son Ben and Davids parents Herbert and Yetta and it  sits on the Shropshire Montgomershire border wholly in England.
The family have lived at Pentervin for many years with the farm Di Enw where David, Sadie and Ben live being purchased as bare land some  ten years ago.
The farm is all down to grass virtually all 1000ft or more above sea level, a mixture of owned and rented land. Stocking consists of some 1800 breeding sheep being a hill flock of south country cheviots which are bred pure or crossed with a Bleu du maine to produce bdm x chvt ewes then bred to a Beltex tup for finished lambs, all tups except the cheviots are home bred, with around fifty or so tups being sold (mainly privately from the farm)for breeding from our pure Bleu du maine and our Beltex flocks.
Cattle enterprise consists of 30 plus pedigree polled Charolais cows which have been bred polled at Pentervin for 30 + years with pedigree status for 20 years, numbers expanding due to tremendous demand for polled bulls, all of which are sold privately form the farm, the three mane stock bulls at Pentervin are all Homozygous Polled and we sell semen from all three worldwide.  Also a commercial herd of mainly Belgian blue cross Holsteins which are bucket reared on farm as suckled cows then many of which are then double suckled.
Plus a new breed to Pentervin! Blondes – Polled blondes! After wanting to try a blonde on the commercial cows to breed a replacement cow, we wanted a polled blonde, and there were none in this country so, David and Sadie went to Denmark, and so the breeding of Polled Blondes in the UK started!