[Jacob-list] De-horning

[Neal and Louise Grose]

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From: "gordon johnston" <gordon at westergladstone.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 6:30 PM
Subject: [Jacob-list] De-horning


"Has anyone ever had naturally polled Jacobs from 4 horned parents ?"


We have not had "polled" Jacob sheep. According to the best definition we 
can find, "polled" is absence of horns in both sexes. We have however, had 
several sex-linked hornless ewes. We have not registered them, and exclude 
them from the purebred flock. They will produce normally horned ram lambs 
( sometimes even if bred to a polled ram), but continue to produce hornless 
ewe lambs. Either is undesirable in the purebred flock, but they are pretty 
interesting.

Neal Grose
North Carolina