Daydream thread... without the rose-tinted specs

lostinrates

Actually the north ronaldsay and the bororay are beautiful creatures too.

Choille is almost certain to know more about them.


I was always taught and think with animals I like better the easiest way to make the choice is to choose form landscape/terrains/conditions most like your own for minimal probalems though. and yours couldn't be more different!

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

so what breeds in need"...??

Badger face?
Plenty to look at here, besides them:

http://www.bcsba.org.uk/coloured-sheep/badger-face-sheep.html

Better_Days

alfie_1 wrote: »

BD....... do you have buzzards where you are ? id be surprised if the chook did what in effect is a challenge so early into its arrival ? it may have done but , bald, they are more conspicuous than camoflaged with feathers. i think if you supply a biggish box that they can huddle together in rather than seperate they may hold heat ? if you put it up a little to prevent em sitting on the top tho. no perch. the smaller the house they are in the warmer it will be for them... wont be for long...
my ex batt chooks soon feathered up ...

Thanks for the advice Alfie - we will put in a box for them too to see which they prefer. I can peek in through the window in the morning to check which is the favourite.

I must admit Alfie and Dave I was surprised at the thought of an ex bat attempting such an escape on her first day. The ones we have had previously have been timid initially and tended to stick together so perhaps the poor thing did get carried off.:(

Love the sheep photos

RAS

I fell in love with White-faced Woodland many years ago but they are rather large.

Had a fascinating and long chat with a couple keeping Borerays; or rather he kept commercial cattle ands sheep and when they got together they decided she would keep something special for herself.

The first problem was that they could not keep the breeds together because the borerays jumped the walls; the second that the tiny boreray ram would not tolerate the Texel ram anywhere near his ewes not even out of sight and in different fields and would attack the bloke as well! So they had to keep them apart to begin with and tether the ram for the winter.

However, the borerays responded to being put on previously grazed pasture by eating all the weeds and clearing out the ditches and wall bottoms. Penned into a field lane, they cleared up the banksides etc.

When it was due to snow, they brought the ewes in for their own ease rather than from necessity. Despite being out 51 weeks in the year and only getting the leftovers, 3 ewes produced 5 good lambs.

The farmer reckoned they helped clean up the spots that other livestock ignored, topped his fields when put in after previous grazers and saved him a job and cost next to nothing to feed (hay during the snow).

Provided they could get the littlest thug in the world to behave that autumn the farmer though they were great little beasts.

alfie_1

our land is near 20 acres split into 4. it is grass... no scrub. few bramble in the hedge but otherwise GRASS only.
post and railed with stock fencing. field shelters. water troughs.

could take a fair few... 10+ ??
size doesnt matter ....our 2 are huge !!!:rotfl:

i wonder if theres a rare breed program of placing flocks somewhere ?:cool:

Better_Days

Not sure where you are Alfie
Anything like this nearby?
http://www.baylham-house-farm.co.uk/

phoebe1989seb

BD - such a shame about your poor old girl - but you mustn't beat yourself up over it, as you say she at least had some freedom in the sunshine before going to the great chicken coop in the sky - sending virtual hugs your way.......xxx

LIR - do hope your bug doesn't escalate into something nasty.....take care and keep cosy if you can

Alfie - those sheep pics are absolutely adorable.....I particularly love the one at the top with the extremely long horns and the spiral fleece chaps I've always had a bit of a thing going for sheep - although the closest I've come to owning any are the three life-size resin ones that *live* by the stream in our garden - philistine that I am, lol :rotfl: - and are currently over-wintering in the shed Guess my love of sheep accounts for why we've two dogs with sheep-like spiral fleece coats - our Spanish Water Dog even has to be *sheared* annually like a sheep! dating from when the Spanish shepherds sheared them along with their flock

alfie_1

alfie_1

phoebe1989seb wrote: »

BD - such a shame about your poor old girl - but you mustn't beat yourself up over it, as you say she at least had some freedom in the sunshine before going to the great chicken coop in the sky - sending virtual hugs your way.......xxx

LIR - do hope your bug doesn't escalate into something nasty.....take care and keep cosy if you can

Alfie - those sheep pics are absolutely adorable.....I particularly love the one at the top with the extremely long horns and the spiral fleece chaps I've always had a bit of a thing going for sheep - although the closest I've come to owning any are the three life-size resin ones that *live* by the stream in our garden - philistine that I am, lol :rotfl: - and are currently over-wintering in the shed Guess my love of sheep accounts for why we've two dogs with sheep-like spiral fleece coats - our Spanish Water Dog even has to be *sheared* annually like a sheep! dating from when the Spanish shepherds sheared them along with their flock

snap... at my friends she had some life size "pottery" ones commisioned. they are amazing and totally confused/terrified delivery drivers as they thought theyde escaped the field. :rotfl: there is 5 adults [4 ewes and a ram] and 4 lambs..

a tree came down on the drive and fell within inches of them..:eek: but 2 just leant over ...all undamaged :j

lostinrates

Meh. Fake sheep are the best sort IMO.