I like horned sheep. They not only are more interesting in appearance, but the horns make them easier to manage. Young lambs have tender horns though, and they must be treated with care, or they can break. A broken horn will regrow, or continue to grow, from the base of the skull. Whatever the break damage, then, will remain, sometimes resulting in one long and one short horn, or a horn that is misshapen, compared to the other one(s). This little girl may have gotten her horn caught in the fence feeder if she stuck her head through the wire. There are few other places she could have possibly damaged it. Horns are full of blood vessels and capillaries, and bleed quite profusely when cracked or broken.
The twin Jacob ewe lamb looked terrible with blood running down her face. It got on a few of the other lambs and one would think that there was a massacre taking place, with all the bright red blood, but it was just the rubbing of the face on the other's fleece, that transferred, really, a small amount of blood that then froze in place due to the frigid weather we have been having. The lamb's horn is cracked at the base and that will change its appearance as it grows out, but fortunately, her horns were very tiny. Poor little girl...she looks much worse than she is. What a sweetheart!
The twin Jacob ewe lamb looked terrible with blood running down her face. It got on a few of the other lambs and one would think that there was a massacre taking place, with all the bright red blood, but it was just the rubbing of the face on the other's fleece, that transferred, really, a small amount of blood that then froze in place due to the frigid weather we have been having. The lamb's horn is cracked at the base and that will change its appearance as it grows out, but fortunately, her horns were very tiny. Poor little girl...she looks much worse than she is. What a sweetheart!
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