Dairy stock : its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed / by John Gamgee.

  • Gamgee, John, 1831-1894.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Dairy stock : its selection, diseases, and produce, with a description of the Brittany breed / by John Gamgee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    annual mark left of continued development. In cas- trated animals the horns sometimes attain extraordinary proportions, but this in no way affects the appearances I have to describe. Shortly after birth the development of the frontal processes on each side of the head indicate the position of the future horn, which appears through the skin within the first month. At the age of four or five months the little horn is firm, and protected by a scaly cuticular covering, which exfohates when an animal is about a year old. At this period the base of the horn becomes knotty, and a circular depression between the skin and the bulging horn is the sign that the animal has folly attained its first year. A second bulge forms, and a depression below it, by the second year, a third by the tliird, and so on as long as the animal lives. But, in calculating the age of a cow at five or six, an error may be incurred by supposing that the first marks formed can be readily perceived. It is only the third year's circle which is very distinct, and con- sequently in the annexed horn we should count from the circle nearest the poiut, and finding six, one of which represents the third year, the animal would be