[blackbelly] Yasha's ramming episodes persist!

[Hardika= with all my heart]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I understand the attachment you must feel and do not want any harm to your
"friend". I feel exactly the same way. I always tell friends not to go into 
the
 pasture area where the sheep are because"Rascal" could take offense and 
hurt
 someone.
Just be careful and ALWAYS  on your guard. He could hurt you or  someone 
else.


Ouestion:  What do you do to keep him from hurting you ? :O)  What about 
when he needs personal care?
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A Question for all:

What I don't understand is....Why the rams feel threatened by us...their 
caregivers?  I am a bit discouraged cause we had an episode again 
tonight...this morning he was fine with me bringing in the corn for everyone 
and did not cause any problems....tonight he met me at the gate and from a 
standing position, not backing up, he rammed the feed bucket and knocked the 
grain all over the ground....then he preseded to try to ram me....I grabbed 
him and took him to the ground and sat on him for a few minutes and let him 
up....the little brat backed up and tried to ram me again.  I grabbed a 
narrow board and hit him on hisforehead and he backed up and kept backing up 
then I left the pen....Alan went in a little time later and Yasha came up to 
be petted and then backed up and was going to ram him....He took him and put 
him on his back with both horns in the dirt and after a few more 
altercations Yasha finally backed down.....This does not look good...... :O(

Jim,

Since you have three bottle rams....do the other two try to ram you also?  
Or just Rascel?  Do they challenge each other?  Ramming each other?  I 
wondered because we only have a 3mo. old  wool ram besides Yasha and so far 
there has been no incidents of them fighting.  I know you said Rascal is the 
alpha ram so the pecking order has been established between them?

We may try the shields for his eyes so he can't see frontward to be able to 
ram....I wonder ...does that work?  Can they see to walk without running 
into stuff?

I wish I had a stun gun...he does not like running into the electric 
fence...maybe a stun gun would discourage his ramming.

Well I guess tomorrow is another day and we will try to deal with him the 
best we can but I don't like having an animal you can't trust to be in the 
pen with.  He may end up as freezer meat......if he keeps it up......   as 
much as I would hate that....  :O(

Annette
Ravenden, AR


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