Thursday, July 9, 2009

Horns or Scurs? You be the judge

Around the time we were getting ready to do CD/T shots on the lambos, I noticed that Celebrian's really crimpy daughter (CB0035) has what appears to be horns or scurs popping out. The following pictures show the size of the "whatevers". This was around June 20th. I haven't noticed any significant growth of them since then. They're still there, but I'm not familiar with ewes and their horns. I'm assuming that they take a while to pop, unlike rams, that pop pretty soon in their lives.
Can you see them, they're kind of small and look chocolate chip like.





After posting about them on the Shetland polled yahoo group, it appears we forgot that Underhill Bach, this little girl's sire, came from a horned ewe.
Another breeding of Bach gave us a ram lamb with scurs. He's so super friendly that he's destined to be a wether and a local family had their hearts melted by him. The little rascal layed down right at their feet and any time a family member moved, he followed looking for scritches.
So, are they horns or scurs??

3 comments:

Ebonwald Cardigans said...

i had a 10 month old ewe all of a sudden grow an inch of horn material and then they stopped. and 10 months later she STILL has that same amount of horn growth.

I typically find my horned ewes throw horned ewe lambs....most of the time. But remember rams out of horned ewes will definitely throw that gene to their daughters (and sons) too! Most of Gail's ewes are now horned...she likes them!

Jen C said...

Garrett,

Thanks for the heads up. Funny thing is that the other sister doesn't have anything at all (at least that I've noticed).

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