ropesanddogs said:
I read in a magazine in a sale barn lobby once about cowlick placement,and wildness.The higher it is,the wilder they said.Anyone else heard of this?I think its bs,but what an idea to come up with,couldnt you just imagine some ole man at the sale sayin "nope,aint buyin her,her cowlick is too high.." :shock:
Well, Ropesanddogs, I was at a sale one time and I heard a Rancher talking about the cowlicks, and he refused to bid on a bull for the reason that it's cowlick was too high! I have heard this from more than one source, and from some pretty respectable cowmen. Experience is a very good teacher, and I will try to learn from any source that I can. Check it out on your own cattle and see if there is any validity to it!
The 'cowlick" or "crown of the head" is formed from the Notochord - a rod-shaped body below the primitive groove of the embryo and also called the "cauda dorsalis" and can be likened as the precourser of the spinal cord and later, in the development of higher vertebrates, is surrounded and replaced by the vertebral column. Any problem, or "mal-function" in the orderly and normal development of the embryo can result in disturbances in natural correct development of the fetus and subsequently cause 'trouble' in the full term live delivered offspring (in Mammals and Human Beings.) The 'crown' or 'cowlick' is a part of that embryonic manifestation. It is claimed by some investigators that 'left-handed people have crowns or cowlicks different than right-handed people, but I have not concentrated on that aspect of it. In my Chiropractic practice I have seen Down Syndrome patients with all kinds of 'hair' anomolies and multiple crown's or cowlicks. I have learned during my lifetime that almost nothing is impossible!
DOC HARRIS