[Jacob-list] Docking Tails

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I read the tail end of the posts on this item and I think Dan's note  on 
"muscle" captures the point.  A Jacob has an active tail; well muscled  to 
keep it relatively clean wether poop or pee.   The tail of the  Jacob has 16 
coccygeal vertebrae, not an 'extra' vertebra.  The number of  vertebrae is 
somewhat 'fixed' by breed.  Bones are structures for muscles  and can't, of 
themselves, move.  Muscle/tendon move bones.  There are  bone and muscle tail 
defects including wry tail and screw tail; wry tail can be  muscular or 
skeletal, scvrew tail is a bone malformation problem ('L'  shape to one or more 
vertebra).  Fred Horak
 
 
In a message dated 8/3/2011 6:13:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
Hobsickle at aol.com writes:

 
Interesting!   I had always thought it was the musculature that kept the 
sheep from picking  up their tails. 
-Dan 
 
 
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Subject: [Jacob-list]  Docking Tails

 
Fellow  Shepherds, 
Jacob  Sheep have an extra vertebra that allows them to pick up their tails 
much  like a dog. I had kept the ones that had petite little primitive 
tails that  fell not longer than the hock, un-docked. On a negative note, our 
shearer  dislikes the tails because he says, they get in the way and it's one 
more  thing for him to worry about cutting. All in all, it's a personal  
preference to dock or not to dock. 
Cheryl  Bresin 
Rise 'N'  Shine Farm
East Berlin, Pennsylvania 
_www.risenshinefarm.com_ (http://www.risenshinefarm.com/)    
 
 
 
 
 
 
risenshinefarm.blogspot.com   
But  He that entereth in by the door is the Shepherd of the sheep.To Him 
the porter  openeth; and the sheep hear His voice; and He calleth His own 
sheep by name,  and leadeth them out. And He putteth forth His own sheep, He 
goeth before and  the sheep follow Him; for they know His voice and a  stranger 
they will not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the  voice 
of strangers. 
John 10:3,4,5  KJV  
And  other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must 
bring, and  they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one  
shepherd. 
John  10:16 KJV









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