Author Topic: Scruffy sheep  (Read 2947 times)

Mallows Flock

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Shepton mallet
    • Somerset Pet Sitting and Dog Walking
Scruffy sheep
« on: September 21, 2012, 04:57:38 pm »
Hmmm....
My sheep look scruffy atm..... esp compared to everyone elses I seem to see.
They roll around in the dying nettles...thus look covered in bits..... they are in and out of the hedges....thus have long trail of brambles that I remove daily...... some of my girls have raddled heads, necks and shoulders, some have burdocks and a couple like to lie in their own poop every night!
Have I just got slob sheep or am i only noticing the posh, fresh, perfect looking flocks! LOL
Please post photos of your flocks looking at their very worst to make me feel better :o)
Lisa x
 
From 3 to 30 and still flocking up!

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Scruffy sheep
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2012, 05:27:48 pm »
Please post photos of your flocks looking at their very worst to make me feel better :o)

No.

 :roflanim: :roflanim:

Sorry but no way!  Suffice it to say, though, that I could.   ;)
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Fronhaul

  • Joined Jun 2011
    • Fronhaul Farm
Re: Scruffy sheep
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 05:54:27 pm »
So could I.  I have spent the day moving my crowd around and in the course of it removing more debris than I care to admit to. 

earlybird

  • Joined Jun 2012
Re: Scruffy sheep
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 06:06:17 pm »
my lot get more time "hairdressing" than ever i do, including my ram and he gets a horn "pedicure" too, im sure they do it just to get the attention, same problem as you perfect looking sheep in a bigger flock over they way, never see anyone in there having to do the same :sheep: :sheep: :sheep:

Mallows Flock

  • Joined Apr 2012
  • Shepton mallet
    • Somerset Pet Sitting and Dog Walking
Re: Scruffy sheep
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 06:36:07 pm »
A bit like the 'grass is greener' maybe.... the fleece is cleaner on the t'other side   ;D
From 3 to 30 and still flocking up!

Fronhaul

  • Joined Jun 2011
    • Fronhaul Farm
Re: Scruffy sheep
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2012, 06:39:27 pm »
Or the boring things on the other side of the road/ hill whatever don't have the gumption to realise what delicious goodies there are in hedgerows?  :-J

 

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