You might remember this picture from my Shearing Day post. This guy is number 65. He was born last May so is almost a year old now. He's actually pretty small for a sheep his age and honestly has no redeeming qualities except for his first year Black wool that he ruined when he escaped into the cockle burrs. So in other words he was only good for market or slaughter.
You are probably asking yourself why then he is still around and being sheared? A fair question. The answer is he was very friendly and managed to charm my wife. She would spend hours out petting him and trained him to kinda lead and begged to let him stay. So my Mother and my Wife conspired against me to allow him to become a pet against my better judgement.
About a month ago I was feeding the remaining yearlings when out of the blue something slammed into my thigh. Not hard enough to knock me down but enough it gave me a nudge and I was off balance for a few seconds. Guess who it was?
If you said 65 you win a cookie from Sandy. Email her for delivery :)
He was wanting his neck scratched and his ears petted because after he got my attention he started rubbing his head against my hand. YA it's cute in a little 45 pound yearling but wait until he gets to be two or three years old. Also the pet sheep are always the ones who cause issues like Sandwich...
This is a younger Sandwich with her patented "Wasn't me" look. Ya ya I know it was other sheep.
Anyway I couldn't wait to get that little whether into the shearing pen as my first victim. I turned his head around and put him on the board and sheared him with glee.
Know what? He still comes up to me wanting his ears and neck scratched but no head butting at all now. I think he learned that wrestling with the big hairless monkey was no fun.
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Maybe something could happen like an unfortunate gun cleaning accident.
ReplyDeleteBubba my friend they would be on to me so fast. In fact I hope that sheep never has an accident because I will be a suspect regardless.
DeleteA marshmallow hart under a hard tootsie pop shell. :)
ReplyDeleteRob - LOL that could be it or maybe I just like her cooking better :)
DeleteSo #65 knows your are alpha. That's good.
DeleteI've never had mutton. so I dunno if it's worth doing, but #65 sounds like a menu item form a chinese place.
Markshere2 - Well Mutton isn't that bad. It is hard to explain though because it does taste so remarkably different from Lamb that if you didn't know you would swear it was a different animal entirely. However I will say that when a widespread collapse happens and shuts down all transportation and stores. Mutton will be on the menu here at some point. Right after Horse shank.
Deletei loooove mutton! and i had no trouble guessing #65....yo - Sweet Sandy, wherefore art thou Sweet Sandy? i wants me cookies - bahahahahah!
ReplyDeleteoh PP - yer still a high praise nutter. still love ya tho! your friend,
kymber
Kymber - Make sure you keep on to Sandy about those cookies. She is a slacker at times :)
DeleteI have not had mutton although I have read of it. I am not even sure where one would get some around these parts.
ReplyDeleteTB - Ya know outside of buying an old Whether and having it slaughtered I don't know either. My grandparents loved the stuff but since they been gone I have not even seen any. Technically I think if it comes from a Whether it's called Hogget instead of mutton though I think.
DeleteAt least he isn't a steer. Even some of the old guys at dairies somehow end up with pet cows that they have to deal with around here. It doesn't usually end nicely though as a cow is a cow in the end. Unless you get real hungry 65 should have it made I suspect.
ReplyDeleteRain here with 20s coming.
Sf - This guy maynot be all that big int he end. My Mother had a whether that was as big as a steer named Bob. She finally found some lady that really wanted a whether running around and took him but that guy was huge.
DeleteIt actually snowed here this morning. Still white stuff on the ground out there.
PP,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds to me like #65 was trying to show you whose boss......and he lost, lol......
You sheered his poor little body naked.............now he's slightly embarrassed, that's why he no longer head butts you. He's looking for a jacuzzi tub to keep him nice and warm......he's heading to Canada to visit Kymber and Jambaloney's jacuzzi!!!!
Sending fresh cow chip cookies out to Kymber :-) (with the brat child grin on ones face) for guessing the right answer and to PP for shaving 65 naked.
Sandy - It is amazing how the shearing process effects the personality of the sheep sometimes. Molly our Rambouilet ewe was a knock kneed fraidy cat until she got sheared last year and now she is one of the most out going begger sheep we have. The rams especially go through a period where they act "sheepish" lol for lack of a better word. It's like they know they lose so much of their size intimidation factor.
DeleteSweet Sandy - i don't know exactly what cow chip cookies are but they don't sound very good!!!! i want me some goooood cookies!!!! bahahah!
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