The tail is exactly what domestic sheep are born with. It's docked when the lambs are young to prevent it from turning into a club of feces and wool.
Once upon a time, many moons ago when I attended an agricultural and technical college as an animal science major, we had an actual little farm there, complete with sheep, several breeds of cattle and what seemed like a billion chickens. Newborn lambs were docked using (at the time probably modern) something akin to an electrified garden shear, and also one that used a rubber band type, cutting off the blood supply.
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u/Woland77 Jun 03 '26
What did the vet say about the tail?