We bid adieu to the sheep today. We sold the ram, the whether and the 3 ewes to another family here in the Leonard area. The idea is to focus on the Angora goats. Here is why I prefer the goats:
- They are currently "free-ranging" around our farm with no fencing. They don't leave! They just stay close to home - it is great.
- They never intentionally try to kill me
- They never intentionally try to ruin our fencing
- I don't have to worry about the kids being near them (as much)
- Their fleeces are far more valuable than the sheep's
- They are not as skittish and are more friendly
I have to admit I will miss the "lanolin" smell of working with sheep, and the cuteness of the little lambs running and leaping and whatnot, but I am totally over it.
4 comments:
"the whether"? What does that mean? Learn me something, oh farmer joe.
As in "whether o whether have my nuts dissappeared to..." or "whether o whether is my manhood" etc. etc.
How do you spell eunuck anyway?
ha ha, or as in "o I have withered"
eunuch
Okay, I've been researching this fascinating new word: it's "wether" for rams.
check out http://www.eunuch.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=1112
but be careful when you check out that link as some people apparently are personally invested--if you know what I mean--in the topic of castration
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