Thursday 3 March 2016

Clever, Happy Sheep


Where we live there are often sheep wandering by the roadside, sometimes scary to come across as it's a fast moving A road and I fear for their safety.  But it's especially bad at this time of year when the grazing in the fields is poor and they spy greener looking grass outside their boundaries.  And after all the recent heavy rains and floods there are lots of places where the fence posts holding up the fences where there are any have all but collapsed.

For farmers busy in the midst of lambing season the last thing they have time for is mammoth fencing projects, so it's a bit hit and miss in places and we have come to expect escapees from time to time and locals drive accordingly.


The farmer that owns the field across the road from us was busy a couple of weeks ago  mending his fences, adding new posts, wires and trimming trees that were falling onto some of them.  He did a great job and all that was left for him to do was to add a new gate to the field and he would be all usable again.  We thought he must have done this last week when we woke up to find two new residents on the field ... although we thought it a bit strange that there were only two sheep in a pretty big field!!


Then when Lovely Hubby walked past there on his way to see our next door neighbour a few days later he noticed that the gate had not been renewed and there was just the usual gate sized space leading onto the main road.

These happy sheep had wandered into stray sheep paradise ....  long ungrazed grass, trees for shelter from bad weather and strong winds,  and a stream running under the trees for a fresh water supply.  But at the back of their minds they must have realised they shouldn't be there because every time a car pulling a stock trailer goes by .....


... they both look up as if to say "have we been found out ... have you come to get us?"  Then as the car goes past it's heads down and back to grazing.

To get them to look up for the photo at the top of the post .... I simply whistled from the office window ...  they are obviously very clever sheep .... which is a rarity  ;-)

Sue xx

8 comments:

  1. Have you watched Far from the Madding Crowd. The sheep bit had Mr Him and I screaming No at the tv.

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  2. Sometimes sheep can amaze you with their cleverness - at other times they are absolutely daft. There seems to be no happy medium.

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  3. Can sheep's eyes actually detect "greener" grass?

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  4. Don't they get all blown up if they eat too much fresh grass? See comment on Far from the Madding Crowd above....

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  5. aahhh bless them clever sheep indeed :-) I love sheep we have some in the field at the bottom of the garden and when I walk through with the dogs I love to talk to them always say good morning and they look and star and probably think she goes again the nutter that thinks we can talk :-) Sue thank you so very much for your lovely message on my post today it really touched me and meant a lot, so thank you. dee xx

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  6. Sheep - I love them! Not sure why, except that most of my childhood holidays were spent in North Wales. And I have many happy memories of the beautiful countryside and sheep grazing in the hills. Thanks Dad for being a Welshman !

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  7. They may actually be Will's sheep! They should be in my field but escaped via the usual loose post, I've fixed it for the moment so they can't get back and being crafty they've found sheep heaven!

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    1. I think you're probably right Mary, they are in fantastic condition, nothing like Hwyels sheep, they've moved from the field now, first they were in the next one along and now I'm guessing they are back with the flock.

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