[Jacob-list] striped horns

[Mark Essen]

Aren't striped and white horns considered a negative by some purists?
Mark Essen
Famous Acres
6701 County Road 353
Fulton, Mo.  65251
(573)642-0350
messen at socket.net
Jacobs 4-Horn Sheep, Pygmy Goats, Pyrenees, Peafowl, Highland Cattle, Yak, Emu, and Fallow Deer all living together in the Kingdom of Callaway
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pbs123 at aol.com 
  To: jacob-list at jacobsheep.com 
  Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 6:38 AM
  Subject: [Jacob-list] striped horns


  Inside jacob horns (scurs excepted) is a bony core, covered with a dermal 
  layer that produces horn material. This layer, as you might expect, is 
  spotted black/white in characteristic jacob fashion, just like other parts of 
  the sheep (even the roof of the mouth). Each spot produces corresponding 
  black or white horn material, but as horns grow distally the spots show up as 
  stripes on the outside of the horn. If you look at the inside of a jacob 
  horn, you can plainly see spots, but on the outside the spots become 
  "stretched out" toward the tip while growing, and appear as stripes. 

  Peter S. 
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