Talk:Polled livestock

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To do:

• Complete list (I started it, but I'm not even sure what breeds are naturally polled since many of them don't say)
• Find some history on polled cattle
• List advantages and disadvantages
• Cite Sources (always the most important one)

Dukemeiser 17:56, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Polled gene is a redirect

can this article be moved to polled gene as a section, /*cattle*/, and similar section created for sheep?

I don't really think there is sufficient material for two articles.

The article Poll Merino has a good discussion of the poll gene (espec. as relates to merinos) Garrie 02:40, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Definition and title

"Polled" means without horns, naturally or not. A polled animal may have had its horns cut off, may have been disbudded (the horn buds burnt out when young) or it may be naturally polled. The term "naturally polled" is only needed because it is one of several kinds of polling. The definition and article title are therefore inaccurate.

I've removed breeds from the list which are not normally polled naturally.

I think there is probably a need for the following articles:

• Polling gene, covering cattle, sheep, goats and any others in which it occurs or may occur (Polled gene is currently a redirect back to Polled cattle).
• Polling (animal husbandry), covering methods of removing horns or preventing their growth.
• List of naturally polled cattle breeds – the nearest to what this article is at the moment.

A similar list for sheep breeds might well be too complex, because it would have to cover all the various arrangements – polled in male and female, in female only, in neither, or with multiple horn pairs. It would be better to cover it in List of sheep breeds --Richard New Forest (talk) 18:40, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poll (livestock) versus Polled livestock

These articles should not be merged, the content is extremely different. They both could stand expansion, but the difference is almost like comparing apples to "road apples" LOL! The poll on an animal is, depending on who you talk to, either the poll joint between the occipital crest and C1, or another name for the occipital area itself. Polled livestock are animals that normally could have horns but don't. Horses, for example, have a poll, and it is very important in riding, but they cannot nor never could be polled livestock! Montanabw^(talk) 07:50, 14 March 2008 (UTC)