It’s not linear, length grows fastest in the first 3 years and slows every year after.
It also depends on whether you are talking about 4/5 or full curl, and a young one with lamb tips or a mature broomed ram. A bighorn can hit 4/5 legal at 4.5 years (at the earliest, like in cadomin) but it’s gonna be a banana head squeaker. Most of them take 6-7 years, that’s when they start serious fights and they broom, and lose a lot of length. Mature broomed 4/5 curl is probably 9-10 mature full curl is 10-12 but many never make it to full, due to tight curls and continual brooming. Natural life span here in AB is 13-14 years max.
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