Becky Lannon
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:16:48 -0800
My husband traveled to a farm out of state to buy some sheep.
He knew another man from another state had already purchased
some of that same group of sheep, but hadn't arrived to pick them up
yet. When he got there one of the sheep my husband wanted tried
to jump the stall gate but didn't quite make it. When my
husband commented about it, one of the seller's little girls said, "Oh
that's nothing, you should see how high the sheep can jump that the
other man bought." Feeling better about the whole thing, my husband
loaded up his jumping sheep and came home. About a year later, he
bought some sheep from the other man, and sure enough we sat down
and checked the records, but no we had not bought the jumper that
came from the original farm. Haha!
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Our friend, however, purchased a roping horse for a good bit of money.
After handing over the cash, the seller went inside to get a receipt for
our friend. While he was waiting, he asked the seller's kids, "What's this
horse's name?" The kids replied, "Our daddy just calls him Psycho, because
he says you just never know what he's going to do." LOL.
Becky Lannon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Swindell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Blackbelly Digest, Vol 4, Issue 13
> William,
>
> Ha ha, that is a good story! Probably good that you put her in the
> truck, too. I have been told (and I have lived to see it come true)
> that jumping ewes will teach their lambs and other sheep to jump, in
> any stressful situation. It helps to get rid of the worst of these
> before they show the others how it is done.
>
> Mary Swindell
>
>
>
> At 03:52 PM 1/25/2008, you wrote:
>
>
> >Message: 2
> >Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:47:43 -0800 (PST)
> >From: william bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Jumping Sheep
> >To: blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info
> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> >I think by now you have the answer that these
> >"critters" really can leap! I was loading up some
> >young lambs to go to the sale barn one year. I had
> >some ewes that were VERY skiddish. when I came back
> >into the barn where I had them one of these ewes met
> >me. I'm almost 6' foot and caught her by the legs as
> >she went by my shoulder! Needless to say I just turned
> >around and put her in the truck too.
> >--- blueberryfarm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > How high can these critters jump? We have had
> > > severe weather the last
> > > few days with much thunder and lightning. One young
> > > ewe (7 months) has
> > > appeared outside my fence 3 times in the last two
> > > days (the same ewe on
> > > each occasion). The last time, there was no weather
> > > disturbance that
> > > might have scared her. I walked the entire fence
> > > and find no holes.
> > > There is one section of the fence that is only about
> > > 3 feet high, the
> > > rest being 5 feet. Do I have a particularly
> > > athletic ewe?
> > >
> > > Jerry
> > > Picayune, MS
>
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