03-06-2014, 08:37 AM
It's interesting how stress can show in the horn growth, just as it shows in the hooves of horses. Cuzco has a major line with a jagged, almost hooked edge where it looks like his horn cracked. It grew out after he fell off the cliff and lost his left horn, but I know that the right horn wasn't damaged at the time. Phil thought we must have overlooked the injury in our fuss over the horn amputation, but I told him I thought it was a stress line. If he'd cracked the right horn I know he would have been very head shy because I was using it as a handle to hold his head still and as an anchor for the bandage, and there's no way he would have tolerated that if the horn had been cracked below the hairline.