I bent over into the pen and scratched the top of the hard little head, feeling the tiny horn buds no bigger than peas under my fingers.

The hair around the horn is trimmed back and then the paste is spread all over the horn bud and around the base of the horn on the growth cells.

He began to examine the neck and head of the calf, then became very still as he handled one of the little horn buds.

I squatted down, felt for horn buds.

Oh, it'll burn your horn buds off, all right, but if it gets in among the food, that's it.

Or they maybe knocked the horn buds on the sides of the bucket.

This group was known for the "living unicorns" they created by minor surgery to the horn buds of goats.

I passed my fingers over the hard little skull, feeling the tiny horn buds under the rough hair.

The chief Department of Agriculture veterinarian for the New York region, though, pronounced the unicorns to be goats whose horn buds had been surgically shifted together when they were kids.

The lambs will exhibit their spotting and horn characteristics at birth, with the horn buds more readily apparent on ram lambs.