Perhaps somebody countrywise can enlighten me?

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.

--
Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl

"Joe Egginton" wrote in message
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Perhaps somebody countrywise can enlighten me?

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.

--
Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl
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They weren't the Shropshire Skinhead breed were they?
I wonder if they were young males whose horns hadn't grown yet or if they
had been cut back to prevent injury. This is a complete guess but I expect
someone from the rural areas will know.
Dave

Joe Egginton wrote:

Perhaps somebody countrywise can enlighten me?

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.


Apparently because they're buttheads :-)
See
http://www.sheep101.info/butting.html

--
Am I the only Gareth Slee?
http://www.garethslee.com

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Joe Egginton writes:
Perhaps somebody countrywise can enlighten me?

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.


Aren't there some breeds where the rams are hornless? Or if one was
known as being a particularly "hard case", could the farmer have had it
dehorned to prevent it inflicting injuries on other sheep?
--
John Hall
"Honest criticism is hard to take,
particularly from a relative, a friend,
an acquaintance, or a stranger." Franklin P Jones

Joe Egginton wrote:
Perhaps somebody countrywise can enlighten me?

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.



Not all sheep have horns. I have Llanwenog sheep and both the rams and
ewes are hornless. My neighbour has Welsh Mountain sheep and the rams
have great curly horns. The ewes have short stubby horns.

What you saw were probably two rams trying to decide who was boss.

--
Howard Neil

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.

--
Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

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.


It was definitely a contest, they squared up to each other twice, and
had good go, several times in each of the two contests. They must have
given themselves one hell of a headache !

BTW last autumn when I was coming down off the Long Mynd, Shrops, I
heard a sound which I didn't recognise, I looked behind and sheep pushed
past me, nearly knocking me over, afterwards it looked towards me,
before it trotted off up the hillside. I presumed at the time it was
spooked by something, though perhaps it saw me has a threat and wanted a
punch up ! ;-)

--
Joe Egginton
Wolverhampton
175m asl

"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

On 25 Oct, 23:02, "Dave Liquorice" wrote:

Yews also have horns, depends on the breed.

Most Yews I've seen have berries on them, but it takes all sorts......

On 26 Oct, 07:56, wrote:
On 25 Oct, 23:02, "Dave Liquorice" wrote:

Yews also have horns, depends on the breed.

Most Yews I've seen have berries on them, but it takes all sorts......

Oh, yew are a wag, sir !