Citations:scur

English

 * A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.


 * 1) 2006, Patricia Garland Stewart, Personal Milkers: A Primer to Nigerian Dwarf Goats, p. 36:
 * 2) * If a small bump, or part of a horn grows back, it's called a scur.
 * 3) 2004, The Traditional Animal Health Care Collective, Alternative Animal Health Care in British Columbia, [University of Victoria], Victoria, B.C., ISBN 1-55058-292-5, page 113:
 * 4) * Treatment (Topic author: Willi Boepple) loose scurs or small horn regrowths. Loose scurs can be nipped using hoof nippers or a wire saw.
 * 5) 1994, Mary C. Smith, David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine, ISBN 9780812114782, p. 524:
 * 6) *If the scur is in the form of a thin strip, like a piece of ribbon candy, the owner is instructed to keep it trimmed with hoof trimmers.
 * 7) 1979, Billie Luisi, A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Goatkeeping, Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, ISBN 0-87857-239-2, page 63:
 * 8) * Since buck horns grow vigorously, a disbudded buck sometimes gets a second growth of distorted or modified horn tissue called a "scur".
 * 9) 1976, C. E. Spaulding, D. V. M., A Veterinary Guide for Animal Owners, Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, ISBN 0-87857-118-3, page 94:
 * 10) * In this case, scurs or misshapen horns may appear.
 * 11) 1975, Jerry Belanger, Raising Milk Goats the Modern Way, Garden Way Publishing, Charlotte, Vermont, ISBN 0-88266-062-4, page 77:
 * 12) * In some ways scurs (thin, misshapen horns) are more dangerous and troublesome than horns.
 * 13) 1963, Carl William Larson et. al, Dairy Cattle Feeding and Management, p. 208:
 * 14) *This should be carefully and completely done; otherwise, some of the horn cells may not be destroyed and a scur, or small abnormal horn, may develop.