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Fortean Sheep & Strangeness Involving Sheep

escargot said:
Isn't that supposed to be the reason for certain ancient religious rules covering animal slaughter, that animals used to be cruelly 'harvested' a limb at a time? I was taught that at school.
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Manx farmers sacrifice their cats tails to their Pagan Gods.
 
escargot said:
Isn't that supposed to be the reason for certain ancient religious rules covering animal slaughter, that animals used to be cruelly 'harvested' a limb at a time? I was taught that at school.
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How else do you think they make clouds? :)
 
Ewe are one in a million.

Ewe defies million-to-one odds to give birth to 6 lambs
Conor Finnerty
Mar 14, 2018, 11:03am
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A ewe has managed to defy million-to-one odds to successfully give birth to six lambs on a farm in the midlands.

The exceptional birth made for an eventful night shift on the farm run by Richard and Ken Mathews – a father and son partnership – in Killeigh, Co. Offaly.

The lambs were born at around 3:00am yesterday morning (Tuesday, March 13)....

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/ewe-defies-million-to-one-odds-to-give-birth-to-6-lambs/
 
Baad news.

A rampant ram, which has allegedly injured several ramblers, is a "public nuisance", says one of its victims.

David Evans said he wrestled the sheep for 10 minutes after it charged at him last month, injuring his thumb.

He said another man has had to have a metal plate in his hand after being rammed in the same field in Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire.

The BBC has tried to contact the owner of the field, which has a public footpath through it, for comment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-43667479#
 
Baad behaviour.

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The Swedish army has re-raised a regiment on the island of Gotland to counter any Russia threat from across the Baltic Sea, but during the official ceremony, its new sheep mascot stole the show by interrupting King Carl XVI Gustaf as he addressed the troops.

The P18 Gotland Regiment was disbanded in 2005, but the government decided to re-establish it in 2015. One task was to recruit a local sheep to follow in the hoof-prints of the four previous mascots, all called Harald, Swedish public radioreports.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-44214538
 
Be careful when ascending sheep slopes.

A hiker was injured after being hit by a falling sheep while walking on the Mourne Mountains in Co Down.

The teenage boy was walking with a group near Hares Gap when he was struck by a sheep jumping from an adjacent crag on Friday.

Mourne Mountain Rescue Team said they received a call for help about 4.30pm.

The rescue team of 17 people found the teenager on a steep slope on Slieve Bearnagh.

“The casualty was assessed and treated for a range of potential injuries including head, neck, back, abdominal and leg injuries,” the group said in a Facebook post.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ire...-by-falling-sheep-on-irish-mountain-1.3601072
 
Do ewe want a good time?

Iceland has published an illustrated guide to the country's most eligible rams, ahead of the next breeding season.

The Ram Registry is an annual catalogue of rams available for breeding at insemination facilities in the south and west of the country, the Vísir online newspaper reports.

The registry is "one of the most eagerly-anticipated publications among Iceland's sheep farmers and enthusiasts", according to the Icelandic Agricultural Advisory Centre, and includes profiles of 44 rams, complete with colour photographs, pedigrees, breeding experience, wool quality, and projections for the number of lambs they can be expected to sire.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-46260845#
 
Is the narrator a computer simulation, or is that a human being with really weird intonation?

Interesting story, however.
 
Iceland has published an illustrated guide to the country's most eligible rams, ahead of the next breeding season.
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Iceland sounds a wonderful place; but I always get the impression that `Interesting` doesnt happen there.
 
ramonmercado said:
Maybe not quite Fortean but no fun for the driver and even less for the sheep. I wonder if the driver got to keep the sheep caracasse?

Bighorn sheep jumps off hill, lands on car in Washington

CHELAN, Wash. (AP) — A driver in Washington state escaped injury when a bighorn sheep jumped from a hillside and landed on his car.

The Washington State Patrol says the driver was near the town of Chelan in central Washington on Tuesday when he saw a herd of bighorn sheep on the hillside above the roadway.

One of the animals, a ewe, jumped and smashed the car’s windshield.

The driver was not hurt and managed to pull his car over.

The sheep died.

https://apnews.com/c8ca6ddd94844782...low&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Oddities
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Poor sheep :sorry:
 
Woolly punk vandalizes a local business in New Zealand.
Sheep fighting its own reflection smashes business window in New Zealand

Residents of a New Zealand town were surprised to discover the culprit who smashed a business window late at night was an escaped sheep.

Michael Walsh posted a video to Facebook showing security camera footage from the late-night act of vandalism at a business in Onehunga, a suburb of Auckland. ...

The video shows the sheep repeatedly attacking its own reflection in the business window until its third headbutt shatters the glass. ...
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FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2022/0...en-window-Onehunga-New-Zealand/1331652117337/

VIDEO: https://video.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.17...MgM1PVgQ6d7nifAXKJTMuUH6WDktekM2A&oe=627B4DF6
 
A pair of wolves panicked a flock of sheep. The sheep stampeded into a ravine or gulley, and 143 of them died in the crush.
143 sheep killed fleeing from wolves in southwestern Idaho

An attack by two wolves panicked a flock of sheep and 143 died after they ran into a steep gully where they were crushed and suffocated, Idaho wildlife officials said Thursday.

The Idaho Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services each confirmed the sheep deaths in mid-May in southwestern Idaho in foothills near Boise. ...

“The wolves scared the hell out of (the sheep) and pushed them into that little canyon and piled them in there” ... “They didn’t consume anything. The sheep just suffocated in the pileup and died. ...”
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FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/us-depar...-environment-24e578f8393e136a9141caac0429e034
 
Metal detecting in Hampshire in April when a sheep and her little lamb made a bee-line for me:
Gerald ! GERALD !! (mistaken identity, I'm not Gerald) GERALD !
Slide off headphones - what do you want ? Ribbet !
For Chrissake, not even pretending to sound like sheep.

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Pink sheep of the family.

Cannon Hall Farm: Barnsley flock flaunt pink hair-do in sheep feeder mishap​




The pink haired sheep
IMAGE SOURCE,RICHARD NICHOLSON Image caption, The sheep's new do comes from a red feeder rubbing off on them, a farmer has said

A flock of sheep are sporting a pretty pink look after a new feeder managed to dye their wool.

The Swiss Valais Blacknose have been rubbing themselves against the red feeder while eating, turning heads at Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley.

Farmer Richard Nicholson from the farm said the ewes had unintentionally joined the "pink ladies".

"Visitors to the farm certainly do a double take when walking past," he said. "We just bought a new feeder and we just noticed their wool was gradually getting pinker and pinker," Mr Nicholson said.

After posting the photo on Instagram the bright quiffs soon became a hit.

The farmer initially thought it was his colleagues using spray markers "too enthusiastically", before realising the feeder was to blame.

"They're starting to look like a bunch of old ladies who've had the same hair do."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-63528000
 
rynner2 said:
Forget crop circles - now we've got a mysterious SHEEP circle
Last updated at 15:02pm on 25th January 2008

There were strange goings on at the farm today when a flock of sheep made their own version of a crop circle.

About 100 of the woolly creatures formed an orderly ring - baffling the farmer and passers-by.

But after hearing the roar of the boss's tractor the animals scattered like a group of naughty schoolboys.

Photographer Russell Bird, who captured the amazing scene, said:"I was quite taken aback. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said.

"I did see a dog worrying sheep nearby beforehand and the dog ran off round the hedge in a different field, so I don't know if they were discussing that."

Bizarrely, he then spotted another circle three fields away, but was unable to take a picture with both "formations" lasting around 10 minutes before dispersing.

Estate agent Mr Bird added of the scene in Kington, Herefordshire: "They moved around inside and were almost filling the gaps in.

"The only reason this circle came to an end was that the farmer came in with a tractor and some food."

Since the event he has been searching for an explanation but those experienced in working with sheep say Mr Bird could be disappointed.

Farm manager at Herefordshire College of Technology, Dan Seaborne, said: "I just think they've been fed with dry feed in that shape - you can get snacker feeders now and you tow behind a quad and it drops pellets on the ground.

"I would imagine that's what's happened."

He added: "I think there was a chap in Yorkshire who spelled out 'will you marry me' to his girlfriend in sheep by putting feed down."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770
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There's another sheep-walking-in-circles story being reported out of China at the moment. The Chinese sheep have been at it for 12 days rather than a few minutes, and they are apparently healthy. Some of the pictures are almost creepy.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/...t/news-story/72b6673a1d2ba7dffd7dbd2ceaab67cb

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Most odd, my first thought was scrapie, but they don't walk like they have that.
 
rynner2 said:
Forget crop circles - now we've got a mysterious SHEEP circle
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Here's a 1989 Science Frontiers (William Corliss) article about sheep circles observed in Yorkshire ...
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Sheep circles!

Britain has been plagued lately with circular areas incised in fields of cereal crops. G.T. Meaden has collected scores of such events, some of which he has published in his Journal of Meteorology. On the theory that one kind of circle might somehow be related to another kind of circle (the same reasoning biologists employ to draw the Tree of Life), J.C. Belcher submitted a most interesting letter to Meaden. ...

"Out on an afternoon drive M. Belcher parked his car near the trigonometric survey point on Baildon Moor, near Leeds, in Yorkshire, at approximately 1430 GMT facing northeast. His wife suddenly exclaimed: 'Look at that circle of sheep in that field!' That was Sheep Circle 1 on the plan where 'a hundred or so sheep were in a circular formation, each sheep being more or less equidistant from the next. At the north end of the field some 20 or 30 cows were standing, grazing and chewing cud in the usual haphazard manner. The circular formation of these sheep was so unusual that I thought I was looking at bales of hay set out in the field by the farmer. Indeed, a stoneage stone circle might have been appropriate on this occasion. I looked around from north-west to north-east, and then espied a similar sheep circle (2) on a plateau opposite...In the sector between north and north-east, flocks of sheep were in other fields but in no case exhibited the circular formation, being in typically haphazard groups.' In a second letter Mr Belcher emphasized that the sheep of the two circles were 'variously standing, laying down, or grazing. All quietly occupied, but nevertheless forming this very regular circular formation."

(Meaden, G.T.; "Sheep in Circular Flocks: Is There a Meteorological, or Some Other, Connection?" Journal of Meteorology, 14:54, 1989. Journal address: 54 Frome Road, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, ENGLAND BA15 1LD.)
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SOURCE: https://www.science-frontiers.com/sf064/sf064b06.htm
 
This April 2021 news item concerns a "sheep circle" in East Sussex ...

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In East Sussex, hundreds of sheep gathered to form a mysterious ‘crop circle’ in a field.

A man spotted the strange sighting while out for a bike ride and captured the moment on camera.

Christopher Hogg was on his regular cycling route when he noticed something unusual in a field off in the distance. ...

Despite cycling past the field nearly every morning, Hogg, a lecturer at Royal Holloway University, noted that the sheep were acting especially odd that morning. As UNILAD reported, Hogg shared that most days he cycled past, the sheep were noisy. However, this particular day, they were strangely quiet. He said, “It was so quiet like they were in a trance. It was very eerie.” ...

Hogg shared photos of the mysterious sheep circle on a Facebook group, Brighton People. ...

While the theories tying the unusual formation to space and aliens is quite fun to think about, a few people in the comments offered a more realistic explanation. Apparently, the mysterious sheep crop circle was most likely a result of how the sheep were fed that day.

As someone explained, “Farmer drove around in circles, depositing food. The sheep followed." ...
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FULL STORY (And More Photos): https://blog.therainforestsite.greatergood.com/sheep-form-crop-circle/
 
Salmonellus said:
There's another sheep-walking-in-circles story being reported out of China at the moment. The Chinese sheep have been at it for 12 days rather than a few minutes, and they are apparently healthy. Some of the pictures are almost creepy.

https://www.news.com.au/technology/...t/news-story/72b6673a1d2ba7dffd7dbd2ceaab67cb

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I’m doubtful these sheep have been walking in a circle for 12 days. Don’t they need to sleep occasionally? They’re walking round a patch of ground of a different colour to the rest. What d’you reckon this is? Sheep are well known for following a herd leader.
 
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