[Jacob-list] question on horns

[Linda]

Was it a ewe or ram lamb?  Isn't polled dominant over horned?  I am not sure how it works over hornless. Could the lamb have been phenotype polled, but also carrying a polycerate gene either as horned or hornless?


Linda


On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:18:48 -0700 (PDT), Mary Hansson wrote:
> Fred,
>
> I have observed a Cotswold/Jacob cross POLLED animal with a grade 4
> split......shocked both me and the breeder.  Just another animal
> that messes with our great theories.
>
> BTW:  The little 4-horned ram lamb that was born a couple months
> back to parents that were/are both 2-horned (at least on visible
> CLOSE inspection) is one of the prettiest ones in the flock of
> lambs---markings, horns, fleece, everything.......  Fleece isn't as
> good (fine) as Nutsy's fleece was, but it is nice.
>
> MEH
>
> Jacobflock at aol.com wrote:
>> In a message dated 4/15/2005 8:40:06 PM Central Standard Time,
>> patchworkfibers at alltel.net writes:
>>
>>> I hope someone else will jump in here on this, as I may be
>>> wrong, but I think that since SUED is linked to the polycerate
>>> gene, you would most often (but maybe not always) see it on
>>> four horned animals.  Does sued occur in hornless and/or polled
>>> sheep?
>>>
>>
>> Split upper eyelid defect is associated with polyceraty and
>> therer are no reports I am aware of that hint of such a defect in
>> polled sheep.  As to the "hornless" phenotype the question should
>> be placed on the table.  There are impediments to answering the
>> question: the observation in the ewe of the sex-linked "hornless
>> gene" presented as an aberrant horn and the scur at the lateral
>> horn location, the willingness to present such a finding which
>> would suggest other questions.
>>
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>
> Mary Ellen Hansson, MEd, RD, LDN
> ISeeSpots Farm
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