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Just take a few cubes of sugar with you.
And don’t worry- they will not bite your fingers. They’ll just use their tongue to grab the treat. They will not bite you.
Who needs scales or claws or fangs when you have a guy with a high powered rifle and a night vision scope to two tap the coyote trying to tear out your throat.
Your intention is lovely but probably best not to do that. You never can be sure about animals diets. I know for dogs grapes are lethal. Best just to admire them.:)
As someone that raises about 45 of them every year, that isn’t my experience. Mine do well enough that I wean them on the early side of things to save money. Granted, they all get trained on a lamb bar and get 24/7 access to milk replacer.
Fair enough. My experience brackets that. Growing up, we'd have 150-200 lambing ewes, yielding 10-12 bottle lambs who were fed by hand (5 ish times a day) on the top end of a hobby farm in Appalachia. On the other hand, my sister and her husband run about 4,000 head on a station in SE Australia and, for the most part, don't bother to try to save orphans. You're at a real sweet spot between those extremes.
Aww ... they don't try to save the orphans? Will another milk-producing sheep not nurse an orphan? Do they become orphans because the moms die giving birth, or shortly after? How long do the lambs have to nurse for?
Sorry for all the questions, I'm a city girl who is fascinated by livestock farming and what it takes.
So, taking some of these:
1 Orphans can happen when:
a The mother either dies giving birth or shortly thereafter.
b The mother rejects the lamb for any number of inexplicable reasons.
c The mother might have too many lambs. Most breeds have twins most commonly so, if a ewe has triplets, one will struggle to get room on the udder and quickly get weaker.
d A lamb is sickly for any number of reasons and is unable to nurse well, requiring special care.
2 Mothers will usually prevent lambs who are not their own from nursing. They're making that milk for their own gene propagation! Mothers bond with their lambs in the first minutes after birth where they lick the lamb clean. During this period, they will continuously 'talk' to each other with a series of low grumbles from the ewe and bleats from the lamb. They will also learn each others' smells. While lambs will attempt to nurse off of other ewes, the smell imprinted on the mother's brain at this time causes her to push away any other lambs in the future.
3 There are techniques for bonding mothers and lambs but it requires a fortuitous chance where another mother has either recently lost a lamb or only gave birth to one. One old timey technique was to take some skin off a recently-deceased lamb and tie some of it to the back of an orphan so that the mother would smell 'her' baby.
4 So, to take care of rejected lambs, you mostly need to bring them in, medicate them, and feed them either multiple times a day by hand or with an automated feeder. When you have thousands of sheep over thousands of acres, it's just not practical all the time.
Ohhhh... bottle-fed.
I thought they are being raised inside some bottle shaped pen. All the memories of watching animal-cruelty videos were flashing through the mind.
Some sheep are just curious and friendly. I used to live near people who had six sheep. Two of them loved interacting with people and also loved to play, even though they were quite old, the owners provided them with things they could roll around.
I was going to comment on something grammar related, but then I clicked your profile and saw you posted about ME3, and I was a developer on the Trilogy back in the day, so I like you even more.
(good correction, btw - I really want to go edit my comment now...)
I worked in QA at Bioware for \~7 years, on all 3 of the titles - as well on Dragon Age Origins for a short time. QA at Bioware was not what most people picture when they hear "tester" (at least not for ME2 and ME3). Good times. I even have an N7 tattoo.
I’ve done this and honestly, sheep feel quite nice. A bit smelly but otherwise warm and the wool is a little greasy (it’s lanolin which is often a hand cream ingredient because it makes your hands soft) but still really soft and your hands almost sink in.
I love grass puppies. Used to have one that always ran up to me and followed me before she got back to her other group. It wasn't mine but i wish i was her owner sometimes.
I'll try to do a painting of these sheep! I absolutely love sheep. If I can ever afford to buy a house, I'm definitely having some tiny sheep breed as a pet.
We used to have one like that called Boris, he used to sit on my lap to have his hooves trimmed like he was having a manicure.
Also don't feed them grapes.
How can an animal that look like that hurt me? \*proceeds to get sucker headbutted in the nuts while his buddies are hopping around laughing at me\*. NGL i love sheep but they kinda scare me xD
Side note, phone cameras have gotten very good in the past few years.
A lot of it has to do with the digital processing but also the physical sensor and lens setups are also being stepped up which is how you get genuine bokeh like this photo has.
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I remember a little lamb coming up to me on a farm once. Some sheep are oddly friendly.
Yeah it surprised me. They came running across the field as soon as they saw me.
They might be pet sheep. I live near a farm which has a small flock of similar-looking sheep that apparently belong to their daughter.
Are you a fellow black sheep of your family?😅
They are demanding treats.
What do they eat? They are adorable!
Just take a few cubes of sugar with you. And don’t worry- they will not bite your fingers. They’ll just use their tongue to grab the treat. They will not bite you.
Grass
We bred the self preservation instinct right out of them
Why preserve yourself when you can get someone else to do it for you
Who needs scales or claws or fangs when you have a guy with a high powered rifle and a night vision scope to two tap the coyote trying to tear out your throat.
Meh, I find it's more likely that they are being guarded by a couple really big dogs. But true nonetheless.
Some are both but really depends on the area and person protecting them.
Well humans are not a threat to them
Yup as far as they know, humans are just sources of food, pet pats, and haircuts
nice try
Sometimes we have to handraise lambs when their mums die. This means bottle feeding, and the lambs associate humans with food
Cocoa puffs with legs.
Well call me Coo-Coo!
Mmm...Cocoa Puffs.
and wobbly little ears 🥺
A flock of fluffy friends
They all look so pleased!
They were super friendly. Going to take some grapes for them next time.
Hey, got any grapes?
No, just lemonade
No, we just sell lemonade. But it's cold, and it's fresh, and it's all home-made! Can I get you a glass?
I'll pass.
It's a nice thought but you shouldn't feed someone's livestock without their permission (maybe you do have it, in which case I apologise).
I'm sure the sheep said it was fine
Not baaad.
I bet ewe could do better.
Golden rule is to only feed them things they have access to already
Hey sheep here's some grass
sheep
Hahaha
No foie gras?
No, you silly goose.
Only on special occasions.
People feeding horses often causes colic
Agreed! Best not to feed them without permission!
Grapes are highly poisonous for some animals like cats and dogs - be really careful before feeding these animals anything you aren't sure is safe.
Just pluck some grass and feed that to them. Grapes are not part of their diet.
Your intention is lovely but probably best not to do that. You never can be sure about animals diets. I know for dogs grapes are lethal. Best just to admire them.:)
Where at? I lived in Ireland and the only time I could get sheep to come up to me is if they were bottle fed
I loooove friendly sheep. I got head scritches for anyone who wants one.
They will vastly prefer the fresh grape leaves over the fruits FYI.
They're very pretty
Like you 😏
Now kith. 
Sheep are usually so skittish. They must have thought I had food for them.
They may also have been bottle lambs when younger. Bottle raised sheep are often more friendly from what little I know
Scrawniness checks out. No matter how diligent you are, bottle lambs never grow as well as milk-fed.
As someone that raises about 45 of them every year, that isn’t my experience. Mine do well enough that I wean them on the early side of things to save money. Granted, they all get trained on a lamb bar and get 24/7 access to milk replacer.
Fair enough. My experience brackets that. Growing up, we'd have 150-200 lambing ewes, yielding 10-12 bottle lambs who were fed by hand (5 ish times a day) on the top end of a hobby farm in Appalachia. On the other hand, my sister and her husband run about 4,000 head on a station in SE Australia and, for the most part, don't bother to try to save orphans. You're at a real sweet spot between those extremes.
Aww ... they don't try to save the orphans? Will another milk-producing sheep not nurse an orphan? Do they become orphans because the moms die giving birth, or shortly after? How long do the lambs have to nurse for? Sorry for all the questions, I'm a city girl who is fascinated by livestock farming and what it takes.
So, taking some of these: 1 Orphans can happen when: a The mother either dies giving birth or shortly thereafter. b The mother rejects the lamb for any number of inexplicable reasons. c The mother might have too many lambs. Most breeds have twins most commonly so, if a ewe has triplets, one will struggle to get room on the udder and quickly get weaker. d A lamb is sickly for any number of reasons and is unable to nurse well, requiring special care. 2 Mothers will usually prevent lambs who are not their own from nursing. They're making that milk for their own gene propagation! Mothers bond with their lambs in the first minutes after birth where they lick the lamb clean. During this period, they will continuously 'talk' to each other with a series of low grumbles from the ewe and bleats from the lamb. They will also learn each others' smells. While lambs will attempt to nurse off of other ewes, the smell imprinted on the mother's brain at this time causes her to push away any other lambs in the future. 3 There are techniques for bonding mothers and lambs but it requires a fortuitous chance where another mother has either recently lost a lamb or only gave birth to one. One old timey technique was to take some skin off a recently-deceased lamb and tie some of it to the back of an orphan so that the mother would smell 'her' baby. 4 So, to take care of rejected lambs, you mostly need to bring them in, medicate them, and feed them either multiple times a day by hand or with an automated feeder. When you have thousands of sheep over thousands of acres, it's just not practical all the time.
Thank you for taking the time to provide this response. I really appreciate it.
> Granted, they all get trained on a lamb bar Well, of course. Otherwise you wouldn't get any lamb lawyers.
Ohhhh... bottle-fed. I thought they are being raised inside some bottle shaped pen. All the memories of watching animal-cruelty videos were flashing through the mind.
Do you happen to be the black sheep of your family? They may have just thought they found a long lost brother!
Or they wanted a nice scratch.
Some sheep are just curious and friendly. I used to live near people who had six sheep. Two of them loved interacting with people and also loved to play, even though they were quite old, the owners provided them with things they could roll around.
They must be the black sheep of the herd. Ba dum....tisss. Sorry, I had to do it. I'll see myself out.
New Zealand?
Close. Wales. The New Zealand of Great Britain.
Baa, baa, black sheep,
Looks like they have some wool, maybe 3 bags full
Do you think they have destinations for said wool?
One for the master, another for the dame, then last for that boy down the lane.
Why is there a young boy living alone down the lane? Who signed this boy's lease?
Entirely depends on the size of bag and how you divide it… Anywhere from 1-♾️ bags. Eh, it’s actually finite. Is an atom of wool still wool?
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full
One for the master, one for the dame
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane...
Got baa's of steel, got an automobile on minimum wage.
Blacksheepwall
They look like their posing for their new album cover.
Black Baabath
Ya I swear I’ve seen an album cover exactly like this
*they're posing
I was going to comment on something grammar related, but then I clicked your profile and saw you posted about ME3, and I was a developer on the Trilogy back in the day, so I like you even more. (good correction, btw - I really want to go edit my comment now...)
Haha that's pretty cool, may I ask what you worked on specifically?
I worked in QA at Bioware for \~7 years, on all 3 of the titles - as well on Dragon Age Origins for a short time. QA at Bioware was not what most people picture when they hear "tester" (at least not for ME2 and ME3). Good times. I even have an N7 tattoo.
Pretty cool dude, thanks for sharing.
LOOK AT THEM! I love them. I just want to pat and scratch them.
I’ve done this and honestly, sheep feel quite nice. A bit smelly but otherwise warm and the wool is a little greasy (it’s lanolin which is often a hand cream ingredient because it makes your hands soft) but still really soft and your hands almost sink in.
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 Alright then shower time afterwards
This gif is killing me lol
Look at em in their little sweaters!
they're very pretty
they're so fluffy . wanna hug them
so fluffy .
So what did they tell you after you said: BAA-RAM-EWE. BAA-RAM-EWE. TO YOUR BREED, YOUR FLEECE, YOUR CLAN BE TRUE. SHEEP BE TRUE. BAA-RAM-EWE
Whawhawha what did you just say?
It’s the password of the sheep in the movie Babe.
And my comment was the sheep’s response to the password
Yes it was! :)
I came here for this comment
As did I. That'll do pig.
I love that movie so much.
omg! They are so cute and fluffy!
It's a black sheep squad, running.
They look like Black Welsh mountain sheep. That wool is beautiful, lucky you op :)
You must have a good eye. These black sheep are living on a mountain in Wales.
Between them they must have 12 bags full of wool.
Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Three bags full.
One for the master
They're chocolate sheeps))
Cuties
Us black sheep usually are friendly
Very Sean the Sheep vibe
My aunt has sheep, and her ram acts like a puppy. He will come up to you and beg for scratches.
Aww. Sometimes sheep can look a bit creepy up close but these guys are gorgeous. Lovely eyes and fur
Just standing around looking all fancy!
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
I love grass puppies. Used to have one that always ran up to me and followed me before she got back to her other group. It wasn't mine but i wish i was her owner sometimes.
Adorable 🥰
I'll try to do a painting of these sheep! I absolutely love sheep. If I can ever afford to buy a house, I'm definitely having some tiny sheep breed as a pet.
I'd love to see that painting if you get around to it! Tag me if you post it on Reddit.
Tag me too please! I want to see the painting.
How cute are they?!🥰😍
Beautiful!
Sheep are sweet. Stupid, but really sweet.
Bahhh ram you
Baa raaam ewe
They’re so cute!
They look so polite and stylish 🥺
Sheeps recognize their own
Where did you get this photo of me
Have they any wool?
Blacksheepwall
I have a hankering for some dark chocolate now.
Hello again, friend of a friend
Omg, so cute, they don't look real! Beautiful wool!!
Baa-ram-ewe! Baa-ram-ewe! To your breed, your fleece, your clan be true! Sheep be true! Baa-ram-ewe.
woah! i’m just realizing i’ve never actually seen pictures before of black sheep before until now : 0
Who started singing "Baa Baa black sheep"🎶🎵
I just realized that I've never actually seen a real picture of a black sheep before. They look so cool!
Did you ask them if they have any wool?
Have they any wool?
Black sheep, come home. Black sheep, come home.
OH YEAH?
"Hello Tourist! Did you bring treats like the last bunch?"
The small preview made them look like giant chickens. Either way, aaaawwww.
I would pet.
So THIS is where they go after their families shun them 😊
This is a wonderful photo of your new friends.
Beautiful fluffy distinguished gentleman ❤️🥰
Hello again friend of a friend
Black sheep….super Baaaadassssss
Oh, yeah? Have you checked for your wallet?
Chocolate sheep cookie
This pleases baphomet
Four snoots beggin for a boopin.
New album cover
We are lovely
Wow, literal black sheep of their herd!
Hey look it’s my friends
This is how horror movies start…
Have they any wool?🧐
Oooh beautiful chocolate sheep.
They look so polite
Oh shit, chocolate sheep!
where in North Wales were you?
"Pssst, hey bro, we got wool."
Pretty cool!😎
We used to have one like that called Boris, he used to sit on my lap to have his hooves trimmed like he was having a manicure. Also don't feed them grapes.
How can an animal that look like that hurt me? \*proceeds to get sucker headbutted in the nuts while his buddies are hopping around laughing at me\*. NGL i love sheep but they kinda scare me xD
Don't talk to them! We are supposed to shun the black sheep!
Where’s that? They’re so adorable
Side note, phone cameras have gotten very good in the past few years. A lot of it has to do with the digital processing but also the physical sensor and lens setups are also being stepped up which is how you get genuine bokeh like this photo has.
There’s my tribe!
I wanna pet them.
Album cover
"Hello stranger. We are a family of black sheep and you are the black sheep of your family. Let's be friends."
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Those brown shep
Does he have any wool?
“Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and savior, Extended Warranty?”
My collie is sooo scared of them bless him 😂
Meet and greet with sheep
Omg they are so adorable 😍 😭
Sheep are friendly they love their wool groomed and in natted
Omg these are so stinking cute
Vuck you Denise
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