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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Shropshirelass on May 22, 2013, 11:16:21 am

Title: Damn sheep!
Post by: Shropshirelass on May 22, 2013, 11:16:21 am: Grr why do sheep have to choose the most inconvenient times to be a nuisance, I've been unwell :tired: :unwell: for the best part of a week & what does one do - goes & falls in the river so I have to go in waist high trying to run whilst been unwell after it & drag it out - that'll do my chest a load of good - NOT! x
Title: Re: Damn sheep!
Post by: Beeducked on May 22, 2013, 07:51:35 pm: I can relate to that!

4 of ours have escaped by jumping the fence into next doors field and I need 2 people to help me herd them round to the road so we can get them back so it will have to wait for the weekend. Luckily understanding neighbours so a cake will square it up. :)

In the mean time having to keep our drive gate shut to stop our other neighbours sheep (who are also escape artists but return home) who keep getting up our drive and have pulled up my new strawberries 3 times now! Getting a little bored of planting them! and today they ate my cabbage seedlings. :(
Title: Re: Damn sheep!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 22, 2013, 09:05:19 pm: I think I'll stick to goats. :goat:
Title: Re: Damn sheep!
Post by: Shropshirelass on May 23, 2013, 12:23:45 pm: It's soo Ironic "Mad goatwoman of madeley" I was talking to goat breeders at the royal welsh smallholders show on sunday saying how I preferred sheep to goats but their more trouble & goats are more character after owning both - no longer any goats though "Sighs - maybe in the future".

But the other week we had 2 orphan lambs tearing around the veg garden eating sappling & trampling freshly rotavated soil that was done the day before, we did some more yesterday & 1 of the cats decided to roll around on it & us it as a litter box & 1 of the dogs was kicking a football on it - animals!
Title: Re: Damn sheep!
Post by: Ina on May 23, 2013, 01:09:09 pm: Yeah - but think of all the money you are saving by not having to pay for entertainment - and the gym!

Hope you are feeling ok, btw, after your cold bath.
Title: Re: Damn sheep!
Post by: thenovice on May 23, 2013, 10:38:33 pm: :innocent: got to love em!
Title: Re: Damn sheep!
Post by: shygirl on May 24, 2013, 12:36:56 am: no idea but our sheep would use our pig sty when they were temporarily in that paddock. also we built a huge pigsty that was almost 5ft high, and our cattle would squeeze into it too if they got the chance. if you build it, they will come...lol.
Title: Re: Damn sheep!
Post by: NormandyMary on May 24, 2013, 08:34:46 am: Quote from: Mad Goatwoman of Madeley on May 22, 2013, 09:05:19 pm
I think I'll stick to goats. :goat:
You are so right MGM. If my boys escape anywhere, I just have to call out "Home for biscuits" to them and they are back before you can say Jack Robinson!! I don't know if all goats are like this or whether Ive managed to train them well. Most of the time, they only have to see me and will stop what they're doing and run up to me.
Title: Re: Damn sheep!
Post by: Lesley Silvester on May 24, 2013, 09:14:02 pm: :roflanim: Food is a great incentive for labradors and goats. I sometimes think mine are a cross between teh two.