[Small Farmer]

Ours watch for anyone witha bucket and hammer towards them fleece flying.  Very amusing

[Remy]

That must have been a sight CW, your little sheep following a bucket through the village  .  So glad they are safe and sound!


Most of mine are bucket trained, but OMG I am nearly trampled in the ensuing stampede when 44 ewes and lambs come tearing across the field and more than once I have been swept away on their backs when some have dived between my legs, I think this is their ploy to get at the food quickly  .  I now call them from a safe distance!  However there are always one or two who don't follow the others and need rounding up  .  I did try a bit of hand feeding at one time to keep them coming after they had some traumatic treatment session, but soon gave it up after I kept being mugged with sheep jumping on my back LOL!


It is funny that even the friendliest of my sheep know exactly when I have designs on them for capture, and I have to try and outwit them.  Not always easy though!  I have one Gotland in particular who is like a dog, will come to me for hugs etc but she is also the one who puts up the biggest fight when she's restrained  .


My Kune Kune pigs will also do anything for food, good job as once very early in the morning I could hear Ernie grunting.  In my half sleep I thought 'aww that's Ernie'. Then realised it was rather close to the house, jumped up and saw the pair of them just disappearing out of my driveway.  I ran downstairs in my nightie, put some wellies on, grabbed some pignuts and by this time they were up the lane.  I rushed after them rattling the nuts and they immediately came haring back - thankfully no cars passed in this time as I must have looked a sight in my nightie with pink flying pigs on it, wellies followed by two pigs 

[feldar]

It's a laugh though when the quietest sheep who will do anything for food, when you want them   they know and dissappear!  it's all in the body language we try not to look at the ones we want to catch cause they pick up on it and do a runner
i mean c'mon do i look like a wolf!

[Mallows Flock]

Wallyward... obviously I don't know your set up but I 'cured' one of my sheep of this doubling the size of the pen.  I guess it just didn't seem like a pen to her at that size (the length of the fencing as a back and 10 hurdles as the other 3 sides) and she hasn't been a pest since. Might help!
Colliewoman... OMG.... that road in your village is pretty scary at the best of times. I will keep my ear out to see if I can find out who put them in the field for you! Lifesavers.

[colliewoman]

Wallyward... obviously I don't know your set up but I 'cured' one of my sheep of this doubling the size of the pen.  I guess it just didn't seem like a pen to her at that size (the length of the fencing as a back and 10 hurdles as the other 3 sides) and she hasn't been a pest since. Might help!
Colliewoman... OMG.... that road in your village is pretty scary at the best of times. I will keep my ear out to see if I can find out who put them in the field for you! Lifesavers.

Thankies hun, I would like to at least give them a bottle of wine

[tizaala]

Gabi is complaining now that the moorits are too tame when she goes in with the feed bucket they mob her and bang into her legs , "those horns are  bloody hard ".

[colliewoman]

Yes, the do seem to have more corners on them than other sheep

[wallyward]

Wallyward... obviously I don't know your set up but I 'cured' one of my sheep of this doubling the size of the pen.  I guess it just didn't seem like a pen to her at that size (the length of the fencing as a back and 10 hurdles as the other 3 sides) and she hasn't been a pest since. Might help!
Colliewoman... OMG.... that road in your village is pretty scary at the best of times. I will keep my ear out to see if I can find out who put them in the field for you! Lifesavers.

Hi M S & P, good idea. Have only got 6 hurdles over at the mother in laws but will take some extra over from the main flock and give that a try.