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Usually present in both sexes: short (10 cm) and fine and sweeping directly backwards, often curved upwards at the tip. In some flocks only about 65 percent of animals are horned, possibly indicating some out-crossing to exotic breeds. |
Small East African, |
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Both sexes are polled. |
Hamdani, Turkmenistan |
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Ewe |
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Large, wide and spiral horns |
Foulbe, Waila,, Cameroon |
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Unspecified |
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Present in both sexes: strong, moderately heavy and long in males with homonymous twist projecting sideways or backwards and outwards; lighter, scimitar shaped and backward curving in females. |
Unspecified-1402883405, Swaziland |
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The horns, which in profile usually appear set behind the face, are long and slender; they project laterally with a downward and backward sweep and in the mature animal are characteristically twisted. In cross section they are oval. |
Unspecified-1402883390, South Africa |
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Straight horns, occur on 71% of the males, curved on 26%, with polled goats forming 3% of the population. Horns mainly point backwards (75%) or upwards (21%) and in a few cases laterally (2%). |
Woyto, Guji, Konso., Ethiopia |
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Horns are bent backwards, having a crescent shape. |
Lebanese Jabali, Western Sahara |
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The horns, which are not thick, are small to medium in length, projecting outward, upwards and slightly forwards. |
Peuhl, Foulbé , Cameroon |
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Thick and light. |
Borrie, Nigeria |
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Unspecified |
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Absent in sheep from eastern Sudan but males from the west are usually horned and about 5 percent of females in west are also horned. The horns are spiral in shape. |
Arab, Ashgur, Shugor, Butana, Beja, Drashiani, Dubasi, Gash, Kababish, Watish, Baqqara, Barka (Shukria), Hamale., Sudan |
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