Author Topic: how vocal are yours? (Read 1958 times)

shearling · « **on:** April 24, 2011, 09:28:40 pm »

Our sheep - Portlands - seldom make a noise. Is this unusual. The ewes grunt at, and just after given birth (don't we all), and the lambs do the odd 'meheh' but thats it.

Rosemary · « **Reply #1 on:** April 25, 2011, 09:01:32 am »

We've got Ryelands but they vary in how vocal they are. We have a set of twin ewes from last year that are very vocal and very friendly. Others rarely bleat. The lambs don't make a lot of noise probably because a) they are never hungry and b) with only six ewes, they don't get lost.

That's their noisiest time - feeding.

Shnoowie · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2011, 03:41:04 pm »

Our Ryelands are fairly quiet -unless a person or car appears, then it is like an ovine version of the dawn chorus!

suziequeue · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2011, 06:28:57 pm »

Our badger faced ewes get vocal when they want their tea. otherwise they're pretty quiet.

They've got us well trained and call when they need something.

Elissian · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2011, 05:14:15 pm »

One of my wiltshire horns talks all the time, we call her rover the dog sheep because she seems more like a dog the way she runs up to us and whoever docked her tail left it quite long so she wags it like a dog. Her baa is quite deep and begins to sound like nagging sometimes!