What are Scurs? - Homestead on the Range If any horn tissue is left alive and in place, it will grow back in the form of a scur Bucks, in particular, are prone to scurs due to the influence of hormones
Scur - Wikipedia A scur is an incompletely developed horn growth In cattle, scurs are not attached to the skull, whereas horns are attached and have blood vessels and nerves [1]
Understanding Scurs It is probably easiest for breeders interested in polled cattle to ignore the scur trait except that this is an indicator that the animal is heterozygous for the horned polled gene Scurs are not seen in homozygous polled cattle Efforts should be concentrated on the polled gene
The Genetics of Horned, Polled and Scurred Cattle It has been shown that, regardless of the cause, the scur condition can only happen in heterozygous polled cattle, of either sex (Asai-Coakwell and Schmutz 2002; Wiedemar, et al 2014) The data also support that males develop the scur condition at a higher rate than females
scur - Wiktionary, the free dictionary scur (plural scurs) (veterinary medicine) A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow
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Genetic Conditions in North American Breeds of Cattle | Homestead . . . Scurs occur more frequently in males than in females The theory is: scurs may be sex linked, and dominant in bulls Scurs may be recessive in females Cows may need to carry two copies of the scur allele to grow scurs; bulls may need only one copy to grow scurs Research is still ongoing