Ram hurt by head butting fight.

Long story short Dominic the Shetland went after Crackers the four horned Jacobs. They fought, they drank and made their ancestress proud, but Dominic ended up winning and Crackers submitted.
When we were FINALLY able to get out hands on the two rams I realized that Crackers was bleeding.
I was hoping that perhaps someone could explain his wound.

Right behind his lower right hand horn the skin behind his ear has...Ripped? Torn? Exploded? Im not sure how to explain it.
I can't supply pictures either as I have already covered it in Blue-Kote, blood stop and antibiotic ointment so their is nothing really to see. Let me know if you still want pictures.
That thing was bleeding pretty good, but I felt nothing broke, he is still eating and running about like a champ and over all seems fine.
I just don't know what this is or how this happened?
I would also like to know if their is anything else I should be doing for him or watching for? Vet was out on an emergency this morning and I've not heard back yet.
Thank you everyone! Let me know if you want pictures anyway.

If you have cleaned and bound the wound then it is likely to heal. The meeting of two hard heads is enough to shear the skin off in my experience.

I have just been through the protracted process (2 months plus) of healing a head wound on a ram. One ram (the biggest and strongest) had a wound in the area on one side where there would be horns if he weren't a hornless breed. It was straight down to skull and smelt awful. I had to scrape out dead tissue and pack it with ointment from the vets and then make a .bonnet' around his head to hold on the dressing. This went on for weeks until the hole finally filled out.

Rams can really harm one another in and near to the breeding season.

Sheepshape said:

If you have cleaned and bound the wound then it is likely to heal. The meeting of two hard heads is enough to shear the skin off in my experience.

I have just been through the protracted process (2 months plus) of healing a head wound on a ram. One ram (the biggest and strongest) had a wound in the area on one side where there would be horns if he weren't a hornless breed. It was straight down to skull and smelt awful. I had to scrape out dead tissue and pack it with ointment from the vets and then make a .bonnet' around his head to hold on the dressing. This went on for weeks until the hole finally filled out.

Rams can really harm one another in and near to the breeding season.

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I knew they could get hurt, but I just expected it to be on the front of their head not the back behind their horns. That was what threw me off the most.
Ouch!! Oh wow that makes my boys little skin tare sound like nothing.

Thank you for the reassuring, I was very worried when the back of Crackers head ripped. It was not something I was expecting thats for sure!

The area behind the horns are the fatty grizzle type tissue that absorbs shock from impact when they go at it. Over-stressed the pressure has to go somewhere and that usually means they split and bleed, it is normal and non-life threatening. It bleeds like crazy tho.

My Mouflon ram jumped his fence and then went over to the american blackbelly pasture and jumped into there, well him and my ABB ram had all out war(at night where no one knew they were together). In the morning we went to feed and found the mouflon in the ABB Pen with blood sprayed everywhere, horns bloody and broken, the mouflon has 2 big drain holes behind his horns from the fight, the blackbellies face is so swollen he could not see or eat.
With the amount of blood everywhere you'd think someone slashed an artery........

Both rams are fine tho, the blackbelly broke his skull by the looks of it, but the swelling went down enough he can see and eat, he is a trooper. I have seen them get through worse injuries without interference.

Oh my goodness.... guess that's why they call 'em 'rams'...

boothcreek said:

The area behind the horns are the fatty grizzle type tissue that absorbs shock from impact when they go at it. Over-stressed the pressure has to go somewhere and that usually means they split and bleed, it is normal and non-life threatening. It bleeds like crazy tho.

My Mouflon ram jumped his fence and then went over to the american blackbelly pasture and jumped into there, well him and my ABB ram had all out war(at night where no one knew they were together). In the morning we went to feed and found the mouflon in the ABB Pen with blood sprayed everywhere, horns bloody and broken, the mouflon has 2 big drain holes behind his horns from the fight, the blackbellies face is so swollen he could not see or eat.
With the amount of blood everywhere you'd think someone slashed an artery........

Both rams are fine tho, the blackbelly broke his skull by the looks of it, but the swelling went down enough he can see and eat, he is a trooper. I have seen them get through worse injuries without interference.

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Ah thank you very much for that, it explains a lot!
Your poor boys though! The things they will do for love, oie.

'Love' BlueMoonFarms?.....or should that be HATE....for other rams? Once the breeding season is past,though, they will be best buddies as rams make lifetime friendships (though the occasional head butt will never be off limits).

My ram's 'hole in the head' is fully healed only after some 2-3 months......but he's on fine form with the ladies.

Sheepshape said:

'Love' BlueMoonFarms?.....or should that be HATE....for other rams? Once the breeding season is past,though, they will be best buddies as rams make lifetime friendships (though the occasional head butt will never be off limits).

My ram's 'hole in the head' is fully healed only after some 2-3 months......but he's on fine form with the ladies.

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Love as in the ladies
I expect them to never love one another, though it would be great! That would be beyond great...
But oh well. I was just worried about whether or not Dominic will go back to being manageable with Crackers again.