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I also grew up around large flocks of sheep and found that when you isolate a young lamb and socialize it: lots of fun. Socialized lambs will recognize human fr
by telesilla 10y ago
I also grew up around large flocks of sheep and found that when you isolate a young lamb and socialize it: lots of fun. Socialized lambs will recognize human friends and will respond to a given name and hang around and play. But after a year or two, after any time spent back with the flock, they forget humans and revert to being one with the herd. Older isolated sheep just get mean and end up being lawnmowers if not mutton. I figured we'd just bred the fun out of them, with a small remaining playfulness coming out while a lamb. I'd be curious to know more about wild sheep.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago> being one with the herd Well, thanks to the internet, now we have a choice of herds. Baaaah.
- louithethrid 10y agoThere is only one herd- and it is full of gnus.
- jrimclean 10y agoGrowing up an a hobby farm with 20-40 (depending on the time of year), this is my experience too. Lambs are playful and full of spunk, but as they grow older they quickly become full-time grazing machines. Rams are just vicious.
- dankohn1 10y agoClassic HN here that no matter how obscure the topic, we have posts from 3 different people with real world experience.
- sillysaurus3 10y agoMy favorite was the person who happened to be burning a boat for fuel when it was being debated whether a crew could survive a shipwreck for years by using the ship as a fuel source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803552
- lostlogin 10y agoI enjoyed the "did you win the Putman" episode. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
- vertex-four 10y agoI'm not sure that sheep-farming is particularly obscure.
- woodandsteel 10y agoI imagine it is among IT people, who are the prime audience for HN.
- dankohn1 10y agoAlso, it wasn't just sheep farming. It was treating the lambs as pets.
- catmanjan 10y agoAggressive rams are partially a byproduct of testosterone and selective breeding, some small scale farmers will leave rams in with ewes and their newborns to protect them from predators.
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