[Jacob-list] horn question

[linda]

I've been playing with a new email client.  I thought I'd sent this, 
but I don't think my addresses imported properly.  So if this 
question comes through twice, I apologize.

I have a yearling ewe with quite nice horns.  A few years ago, 
I quit 
keeping any lambs without all strong horns.  This girl was 
born with 
nice, firmly attached horns - never had a wobbly little scur 
on her 
head.  About six months ago, our maniac Nubian hit her and 
broke a 
lateral. Then I slammed her head in the gate (not on 
purpose!)  a few 
months ago and really tore off the other.  Wouldn't you know 
- I've 
never slammed a poor horned animal in the gate.  Any way, 
when I had 
some lambs with wobbler horns and those horns would 
break, they would 
grow back pretty quickly.  These horns seem to be growing 
back pretty 
slowly, although both are quite thick, neither seems to be 
getting 
much longer.  The horns were about 6 inches long when they 
were 
broken.  When mature horns are broken do they sometimes 
grow back 
very slowly, if at all???
 
Linda
-- linda, wolfpen at alltel.net on 29/06/2000



-- linda, wolfpen at alltel.net on 29/06/2000