[JMB]

Hi. Our pet sheep(wether) Lamby chooses to spend most of the time on his own and always has done, even though we've always had other sheep with him.
(The chickens live with him and the pigs are nextdoor and the farmer has sheep in the next field).
Our flock are now gone and Lamby was briefly on his own, until our lovely neighbour offered us a loan of 2 sheep to keep him company.
It's early days, but he seems more annoyed at having to share his space at the moment and the feeding troughs (and there's loads of room to move about between fields and avoid each other).
Before we had him, he was hand reared and lived with horses (and they competed for food). I just wondered if some sheep would prefer to be on their own?
Bit difficult to tell what he's thinking.....
Xxxxxx

[trish.farm]

I have a ewe who was hand reared who would be much happier roaming around my garden and yard than being out with the others.  She lambed 3 months later than the others last year so spent the whole summer wandering around the garden and farm with her 2 lambs. In the autumn I put her back with the small flock and boy was she not impressed!  The first chance she had she was out the gate and back in my garden!!  Quite happy lying by the conservatory doors watching me in the kitchen.  If she had half a chance she would be in the house and curled up with the dogs!!  She had to go back out with the girls for tupping and is still with them but always trys to follow me out of the gate and come with me!!