Blackface horns - seriously?

[spark_28]

Why oh why would you want horns like this on a sheep? These 3 fetched nearly 2000 a head aswell

 

[Tim G]

Make good walking sticks maybe?

 

[spin cycle]

beauty in the eye of the beholder....or in this case at least two bidders

 

[Woolless]

They look like proper legging rippers, those horns!

 

[Blue.]

Why oh why would you want horns like this on a sheep? These 3 fetched nearly 2000 a head aswell

£1900 back in luck money?

 

[Michael3112]

Oh how a remeember growing up around those sh1!s think thats why i hate sheep now, always horns to the back of the legs an alot of ripped waterproofs usually always brand new ones aswell

 

[Michael3112]

Make good walking sticks maybe?

They make very good sticks i used to collect them up for an old guy he always swore by the blackface horns for making sticks

 

[scottish-lleyn]

They make very good sticks i used to collect them up for an old guy he always swore by the blackface horns for making sticks

Blackie tup horns make fantastic sticks ewes horns are difficult to work offten brittle or partly hollow. Some are ok tho.

 

[PaulNix]

beauty in the eye of the beholder....or in this case at least two bidders

Or one bidder and the auctioneer

 

[Blue.]

Wide horned blackies are barstewards in the combi-clamp,they put their head down and refuse to go in.

 

[Longlowdog]

They look nothing like the blackies I remember from my time on Skye. They swept backwards and you could get a full curl without digging in to the head. I shudder to think what state they would look if they hadn't had enough feed to put those horns on.

 

[Agrivator]

I'm afraid it's just the latest fashion. Big horns and wild as hell.

 

[Nithsdale]

I can confirm - big horn and wild as hell...


That's how I like them

 

[Nithsdale]

I don't like those Blackies, though

 

[DB67]

First they moan about being tight now they moan about being too wide!

 

[Moors Lad]

Fashions in some top breeders eyes may raise eyebrows in us lesser mortals in one or two hill breeds. One`s really seriously got to hope that the LONG TERM future of these breeds will be safe....... There are plenty of examples in history where breeds have lost favour as a result of not being fit for purpose. Certainly this "wildness" is not too popular in some circles, and quite frankly I can`t see how a ewe that tears off with one lamb leaving t`other behind is much good to anyone!!

 

[Paul E]

.....that's assuming she's had 2, or doesn't just bugger off without any.

 

[Gator]

Make good walking sticks maybe?

Dear walking stick

 

[Nithsdale]

Dear walking stick

You writing a letter?

 

[Gator]

You writing a letter?

Bloody spell check