Posted on 12/12/2010 11:38:25 PM PST by Racehorse
The friend who taught me to spin (the one who hates to ply) kept angoras until she got tired of the nasty disposition. Bad attitude must be one of the breed standards, LOL.
She still has a hundred head of ewes on her family farm, mostly Romney, with some merino, cotswald, lincoln, dorset and texel for variety. She keeps 7-10 bucks in a seperate pen and most of them are total sweeties.
Some old ladies collect cats, we collect sheep!
During breeding season, my breeders were nasty but only had 3 of them. With taking them down to trim hoofs, delouse and worm every 3-4 months we all knew each other. I could do all of the doe's and yearling bucks by myself, but it took me and hubby for the large bucks and neutered males...
I had one that had been a bottle baby and quite sickly when born, we bonded real good and I could let him out of the pasture and he would follow me around the farm. I would take him to the pond and he would trim up the weeping willows for me as far as he could reach. He would walk the farm with me even as an adult..
There were a couple of old nannies that I had to get tough with, but they were the six adults of our original 18 and not born on the farm....
But if you don't spent time with them, they can be cantankerous (usually the males)
But the breeders would be dangerous during breeding...I always eyeballed where the male was during that season before I went into the pasture. They would hurt you real bad. My largest breeder's horns were (somewhere between 44-46 inches from tip to tip) He had to turn his head sideways to get through the barn door....he learned to do that at a full run when I banged on the metal bucket at graining time....If they were at the back of the pasture, the whole flock came running like one big hairy flock...I got out of the way when they got close to the barn, but the grain was already in the feeder.
...hmmm, and to think that I have been so misinformed.
All this time I thought buffalo soldiers had dark curly hair ‘n’ stuff!
LOLZ
A.A.C.
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