[Jacob-list] Re: Horns and scurs

[Linda]

For comparison, does any know what the skull would feel/look like on a polled sheep or on a ewe from a breed that is 
hornless in ewes?  

Linda

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 06:00:53 -0700 (PDT), Mary Hansson wrote:
>Linda and all,
>
>I had another hornless wonder this year as well (out of the same ewe that had
>the situation 6-7 years ago).  The skulls on both ewe lambs had lumps, but you
>just never saw horn burst through the skin.
>
>The times that weak (likely scur-type side horns) horns have been knocked off
>at the base of my ewe heads, there has not been a comparable lump.
>
>In my case, even though the pedigree was exemplary on both ram/ewe sides in
>each hornless ewe, all have been  culled----including the dam.  Sires to each
>of the ewe lambs were not culled, although the first one is long since dead
>for other reasons.
>
>Mary Ellen

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