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- 2006, Patricia Garland Stewart, Personal Milkers: A Primer to Nigerian Dwarf Goats, p. 36:
- If a small bump, or part of a horn grows back, it's called a scur.
- 2004, The Traditional Animal Health Care Collective, Alternative Animal Health Care in British Columbia, [University of Victoria], Victoria, B.C., →ISBN, page 113:
- Treatment (Topic author: Willi Boepple) loose scurs or small horn regrowths. Loose scurs can be nipped using hoof nippers or a wire saw.
- 1994, Mary C. Smith, David M. Sherman, Goat Medicine, →ISBN, p. 524:
- 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.
- 1979, Billie Luisi, A Practical Guide to Small-Scale Goatkeeping, Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, →ISBN, page 63:
- Since buck horns grow vigorously, a disbudded buck sometimes gets a second growth of distorted or modified horn tissue called a "scur".
- 1976, C. E. Spaulding, D. V. M., A Veterinary Guide for Animal Owners, Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pennsylvania, →ISBN, page 94:
- In this case, scurs or misshapen horns may appear.
- 1975, Jerry Belanger, Raising Milk Goats the Modern Way, Garden Way Publishing, Charlotte, Vermont, →ISBN, page 77:
- In some ways scurs (thin, misshapen horns) are more dangerous and troublesome than horns.
- 1963, Carl William Larson et. al, Dairy Cattle Feeding and Management, p. 208:
- 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.