[Jacob-list] Fw: butting rams

[gordon johnston]

This didn't seem to go through when I sent it yesterday - apologies if you
get it twice.
Juliet

Subject: Re: butting rams


>
> Butting rams , some suggestions : wrap your sheds in wire sheep mesh,
inside
> and out, which gives them some extra structural integrity ; erect a small
> post and wire mesh enclosure around each tree (we do this anyway or the
bark
> gets stripped and eaten) ; sink a few hefty stobs or pine poles around the
> place so the ram can concentrate on them rather than on the fence (once
one
> starts to loosen, the ram will concentrate on it as he thinks he's making
> progress !); resign yourself to reinforcing the fences every now and then
;
> call the butcher once it gets too bad.
>
> Although it is a nuisance, all this mindless head bashing, I would far
> rather the rams employ themselves that way than fighting eachother or
> attacking people.  I don't think it's aggression, just that there's not
much
> going on in a rams head once he's served his ewes...'uh, what shall I do
> next ? - I know, I'll bang my head against something hard ' LOL.
> Don't you just love 'em ?!
> Juliet in Scotland
ps - be careful with electric fencing in case they get caught in it with
grizzly results.  I have heard of sheep attempting to mate over an electric
fence and dying and of one ram getting caught and being killed by the others
because he was unable to escape.
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