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Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Jon Feather on July 30, 2015, 02:32:11 pm

Title: I found this interesting
Post by: Jon Feather on July 30, 2015, 02:32:11 pm

and thought you might too.  :thumbsup:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_sheep_husbandry

Title: Re: I found this interesting
Post by: Marches Farmer on July 30, 2015, 02:48:44 pm

Some terms I hadn't come across before.  If you use the word "teg" in Wales they look distinctly puzzled.

Title: Re: I found this interesting
Post by: Kimbo on July 30, 2015, 08:02:07 pm

Quite a lot of those are American terms.

Title: Re: I found this interesting
Post by: Fleecewife on July 30, 2015, 11:39:07 pm

Woolcock - a husband of sheep    ??? ???  My mind is boggling  :thinking:


Interesting though incomplete - I suppose it's impossible to add in every variation (many of which have popped up on TAS at various times).   And they didn't have 'yan, tan, tethera............'.  The other night in a programme I've forgotten the name of, an auctioneer in a sheep mart of half a century ago used the word 'tethera' I thought, but as I barely understood a word of what he said, I could well be wrong.  I thought it was just used for counting sheep.

Title: Re: I found this interesting
Post by: Jon Feather on July 31, 2015, 07:08:15 pm

Quote from: Fleecewife on July 30, 2015, 11:39:07 pm

Woolcock - a husband of sheep    ??? ???  My mind is boggling  :thinking:


Interesting though incomplete - I suppose it's impossible to add in every variation (many of which have popped up on TAS at various times).   And they didn't have 'yan, tan, tethera............'.  The other night in a programme I've forgotten the name of, an auctioneer in a sheep mart of half a century ago used the word 'tethera' I thought, but as I barely understood a word of what he said, I could well be wrong.  I thought it was just used for counting sheep.

Some of the older farmers round here still count sheep like that, yan, tan, tethera, etc   :farmer: