Any breeds of sheep where the ewes have horns?

[jbourget]

why are you ruling out Jacob sheep because of were you live? thier horns have nothing to do with why you should rule them out. Its not like they use them, they are just pure Elegance, and are very marketable for thier horns and spinning fiber. Not to mention breeding stock sales. I fetch a very good price for my lambs, and we need more breeders to help preserve this breed, The oldest know to man. The Jacob Sheep. Visit www.Jsba.org and you will learn alot more and browse other breeders webpages as well as my own. as far as a few for pets, you would be the talk of the town with your exotic pets. I sure am, i cant stop talking about them when the herd is out grazing the front lawn. People litterally Jack up on thier brakes to stop and ask me what the heck those things are!?!? and are interested.

This is a skull that has been polyurethaned and beads glued to make fancy. Sometimes sell for more then the actual sheep would. No part goes to waste on these animals

 

[Fawkes]

I live in the suburbs (but have a pretty big yard) and even though I'm allowed sheep I wouldn't want to draw attention to myself. Mainly because I already get enough annoying people I don't even know trespassing in my yard, staring at my pond/yard, feeding MY fish, some people even have the nerve to fish in my pond! Drives me crazy. I reckon from a distance small-medium sized sheep with no horns would look more like a dog or something, especially since there's trees and it would be at an angle, so they wouldn't be able to get a good look at them. And you never know how silly people can be, they might think sheep with horns are dangerous even though they aren't.

 

[jbourget]

Even more reason to get them...

have one of these guys in your yard i dont think they will be trespassing any longer. makes sence to me

 

[kuntrygirl]

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I'm so scared of horns.

 

[Tracydr]

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I'm planning to get them when we move to more land. Used to raise longhorn cattle, which I will be getting again, too.

 

[zzGypsy]

We've got some sheep with horns but mostly without. if you're working in among them, horns can be an issue. I've had more bruises from horned sheep than from polled ones... not an agression issue, but if you're in the flock sometimes you just get caught by one - they hurt! we generally leave the horns on the rams if they've got good dark horns. in our sheep, light colored horns are generally skurs and break easily so we disbud those.

are you keeping a ram? there are some breeds where generally only the rams have horns, the ewes are typically polled.

what's your primary purpose for the sheep? that should be a bigger factor than horns or not. you can always disbud the lambs (or have the vet do it) if they have horn buds.