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Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 15 Dec

I’ve talked about my father’s sheep studs before. As well as breeding Merinos, he had Suffolks and Poll Dorsets. He exhibited all these breeds in agricultural shows. The Merinos in a particular class would be pulled out into a...

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My Dad's Wool Table

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 2 Dec

While I know it’s not very interesting to many of you, I needed to get this off my chest, so to speak. I was going to put up a photo of the wool table my father made and which is still in use. However, there were too many terms...

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Thinking outside the box

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 29 Nov

When we took visitors to our old farm recently, the owners (my cousin and her husband) were away but they invited us to look over the farm. Behind the shearing shed was a piece of equipment. We had no idea what it was used for....

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No chasing grass for these sheep

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Nov

The photo shows one of the paddocks on our old farm. You can see two different types of sheep-feeders. The sheep seem to have all chosen the same feeder but It’s because they haven’t registered the sound of the ute/pickup. The...

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The sheep with wool look awesome in a group

Dr Souvik Chatterji @sathviksouvik (23230) 6 Oct

We found the pack of sheep in the land of sweaters that is Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. These are the 2 northern states of the country. Major sweaters are made out of the wool of the sheep in these places. in a group they look...

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Sheep on the run in the streets of Chicago

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 13 Sep

A sheep that was inside of a slaughterhouse that managed to crash through a window on Halstead Street on Monday August 11 managed to interrupt traffic while employees of the slaughterhouse were chasing the sheep. Employees of the...

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Cloning is alive and well

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Sep

Dolly the sheep was cloned quite some time ago, in 1996 in fact. I hadn’t thought about it much since but, if I had, I would have realised that was probably just the first of many. And now a news article has come up saying that...

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Authorities in North Carolina looking for two sheep on the loose

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 19 Jul

Chatham County Sheriff's Office Animal Resources Center in Pittsboro North Carolina answered an emergency call from a concerned citizen about 10 sheep that ran away from their owner on Wednesday June 18. The sheep were seen near...

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Sheep that was running loose on the street in Milwaukee caught by authorites

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 6 Jul

Employees of the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control (MADACC) answered an emergency call from residents when a sheep as seen running on Forest Home Avenue on Friday morning June 6. After the animal control officers caught the...

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Lost sheep in Leander Texas seen near an elementary school

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 1 Jun 25

A flock of lost sheep that have been seen wandering in the streets of Leander Texas have attracted the attention of the Leander Police Department since Wednesday May 7. The flock of sheep that have been seen wandering in the...

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Goat or Sheep?

SIDDI KIMPOLE @SIDIKIMPOLE (3480) • Eldoret, Kenya 18 Apr 25

Having gotten used so much to the birds in my homestead, I am considering adding more livestock. At the moment I can afford a goat or a sheep. However I am undecided which one to begin with. I wish i could have enough money to buy...

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Five sheep wandering on a road in Washington state

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 15 Apr 25

Five sheep who were on the loose in the streets of Sequim Washington on Saturday April 5 when deputies with the Clallam County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) answered an emergency call to remove the sheep from the road. A neighbor...

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Sheep rams a state police car in Michigan

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 7 Oct 24

A Michigan State Police trooper was driving in the Gaylord Michigan area on Sunday September 29 when the sheep that was on a road decided to hit the state police car. The sheep was not able to make a dent on the police car after...

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There's something calming about watching sheep graze on lush green grass

Pitstop @pitstop (15551) • Australia 6 Oct 24

Watching hundreds of sheep on the grass felt very blissful. There were hundreds of them. Some were a long, some in families and others just meandering around. They do make baa-baa sounds, but it sounded cute! We spent 15 minutes...

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Lost sheep find a new sanctuary home in New York

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 11 Jul 24

The Woodstock Farm Sanctuary did share some good news that a sheep who goes by the name Waldo after the children's book character since the sheep who was mistaken for a goat managed to elude being slaughtered while the sheep was...

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Another pet sheep has passed away

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Jun 24

We had a message from a friend today saying Harry, one of the last two of our sheep, had died. We took in Harry and Solomon from a property that had been ravaged by fire. However, we hadn’t had them long and we decided to sell...

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Goats and sheep wander on the interstate in Virginia

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 24 May 24

Nine goats and a sheep that managed to get away from the farm in Chesapeake Virginia last Wednesday evening when the Viriginia State Police as well as the Chesapeake Animal Control answered the call to rescue the animals who were...

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A sheep that was wandering in the streets of Brooklyn captured by police

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 7 Feb 24

It is very rare for the New York Police Department (NYPD) officers to work a detail in Brooklyn New York where a female sheep or ewe as they are called was seen running on the street in a parking lot near a Costco store on...

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Police in New York capture a sheep loose on the streets

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122065) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 6 Jan 24

The Niagra Falls Police Department in New York answered an emergency call on Wednesday afternoon when a sheep managed to get away from his owner. The police officers with the assistance of an animal control officer were able to...

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Self-shedding sheep make life easier for the farmer

Judy Evans @JudyEv (381741) • Rockingham, Australia 14 Oct 23

The photo shows one of the self-shedding sheep at our last house-sit. There are several of these breeds in Australia now and they are gaining in popularity as, because the wool comes away of its own accord, the sheep don’t need...

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