[Jacob-list] horny question :o)

[Debbie Bennett]

>  
> Feeding practices seem figure predominately in horn breakage (just my 
> very humble opinion).
>  
> Linda
>  
I agree. Most of my ewe lambs have already broken a horn or two. It 
happens during the morning feeding frenzy. However, I've never had a ram 
with a broken horn, whether 2 or 4 horned (maybe because rams don't get 
grained and I put out a separate flake of alfalfa for each ram?).
A retiring breeder told me: use 4 horn rams two or three years and then 
use a 2 horn ram, keep the four horn offspring from him and it will keep 
the 4 horns strong. Don't know if this works, as I've only been breeding 
Jacobs for four years, but its a plug for those two horn rams that are 
much harder to sell!

Debbie Bennett
Feral Fibre
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