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PainterofCrap
Oct 17, 2002

hey bebe



I am completely ignorant about how horns grow on sheep/goats/ungulates; are they a constant growing thing? The whole length?

First thing I thought of when reading about the weak horn was to figure out a way to reinforce it with fiberglass. plaster, or some kind of sleeve.

I presume then that they are like cats - it's nearly impossible to keep a cast or other type of restrictive device on them.

(edit) thanks for the link - learn something new every day!

So...the growth of the horn will eventually overcome/crack the fiberglass, which is good...

and, disposition allowing, the subject may tolerate getting the cast off - I imagine it gets irritating when loose, and he can feel it sliding around a bit.

AND the horn should rebuild at the break, given a chance to stay in a fixed position long enough to do so.

Cool!

PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Sep 3, 2019

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