wolf
Loving the herd life
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I've had sheep for several years, and my current ram was born last Spring. His mother is polled for several generations and his father was horned. Since his birth I was watching for horns. For months I've thought he might be polled. Yesterday as I brushed past his head with his feed bucket, I noticed very small ones lost in the roughy fur of his crown. He's a big guy, now - almost a year old - and they're the size of the end of my thumb. What was I finding? Is there a NAME for this? I thought horned or polled would show - or not - and any cross would be polled by carrying a gene for horns that would show up in a 3rd generation... not be permanent "buttons" on a 1st-cross sheep's head! He hasn't had horn-buds burnt as an infant, so they're not scurs growing back... so what is this called?