"Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:36:51 +0100, Joe Egginton wrote:

Last Sunday while walking over the Shropshire hills, I noticed two
sheep head butting each other. Yet both sheep didn't have horns. I
always thought that rams had horns.

Yews will have a go at each other like that as well. Was this just the odd
"gerroff my bit of grass" or something a little more serious with the two
animals squaring up to each other.

Yews also have horns, depends on the breed.

I have, ahem, ewes in the field outside my back door.
They are Jacobs and they all have horns, although one or
two have had them removed because they're a bit butch
and like to have a go a bit too frequently. Having said that,
most of them do a bit of butting from time to time ... and
indeed so did the lambs when they were little. It's what
they do.

Philip