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Horns are carried by 96% of all animals but 31% have only rudimentary horns. Normal horns are heavier in males than in females but in both sexes they grow in an upward and backward curve. |
Mozambique (Landim=Landrace in Portuguese); Small East African., Mozambique |
On Station |
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Sixty-nine percent of males have horns of medium length, projecting backwards and then outwards; 76 percent of females have lighter and narrower horns. |
Bechuanaland (but obsolete)., Niger |
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Short, thick at the base, round in cross-section and upright. Polled animals are not uncommon. |
Unspecified-1402883374, Ethiopia |
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Males have curved (47%) and straight (41%) horns mainly pointing backwards (58%) with some pointed straight upwards (28%). Polled goats were 6% in both sexes. |
Arsis, Gishe, Sidama, Manta, Awarch, Ethiopia |
On Farm |
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Most horns are perpendicular to the head and bend into a loop. |
Lebanese Jabali, Western Sahara |
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Males have either no horns or have two laterally projecting horns but females are hornless. |
Unspecified-1402883399, Eritrea |
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Light, porous, thin horn case. Abnormal form is Buoy-shaped. |
Unspecified-1402883370, Chad |
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80% straight and 17% curved in a lateral orientation for 70% of the cases, however in the case of typical Boran the horn is predominantly short. |
Unspecified-1402883374, Ethiopia |
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Present in both sexes: strong in males, flattened in cross section, markedly ribbed, directed straight upwards and backwards diverging more or less then turning in wards at the tips, homonymously twisted with slow spiral, sometimes horizontal; female horn |
Sahel, West African Long-legged, Desert, Sudan, Fulani, Peul, Peulh, Gorane (Chad)., Chad |
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Almost all the sheep were polled except in rare cases |
Bonga, Ethiopia |
On Farm |
