[Jacob-list] 'Useful' ram stories.

[Dr. David R. Lincicome]

1755 hrs/Thursday 7 June 2001

Your ram stories are wonderful.  All of you, collect your ram stories &
experiences, and let's write a book!!  I liked the suggestion the
National Geographic might do a PR bit for the breed.

David Lincicome

WenlochFrm at aol.com wrote:

> Enjoyed your ram story, and have one of my own. This past winter we
> had a lot
> of snow and then it rained leaving a heavy crust of ice on top. I
> decided to
> scatter the flock's grain ration over a large area of the crusted snow
> to
> keep everyone from fighting over it, and give them something to do
> digging
> for it. I have a two-year-old 4H ram whose top horns are close
> together and
> go straight up with only a slight curve. Later in the afternoon I
> looked out
> the window and saw him with snow packed in between his top horns
> almost to
> the top. He sort of looked like the Abominable Snowman, and I couldn't
>
> imagine why or how he managed to do it. I had my answer when I went
> out to do
> evening chores, and there he was, still shoveling snow with his top
> horns to
> get at the last kernels that had fallen through the snow. He had
> cleared the
> whole area of snow right down to the ground. It looked like a parking
> lot
> that had been snow ploughed with the all the snow banked around the
> perimeter
> as neatly as any driver could have done it.
>
> Joan Franklin