[Jacob-list] crow for dinner

[Linda]

Thanks all for the input.  No, I will not be butchering Junco.  I just wanted to point out that rams can hurt you.  
Even in an incident like this, which if it had a ewe badgering me for a treat, would have been nothing more than a 
slight tap, can hurt if it's an adult ram with horns like Junco's.

Linda

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:55:25 -0400, Linda wrote:
>Well, I'm cooking a crow and eating it for my dinner.  I don't know why, but
>it seems everytime I get abit complacent or prideful about my Jacobs, they
>band together and teach me manners and humility.
>
>My "gentleman" ram, Junco, is still a gentleman, but he reminded me last
>evening that he is, indeed, a ram.  Last evening, I opened the gate to the ram
>paddock for them to go out and graze around the fruit trees for the night.  I
>can't let Beulah graze there anymore at night, as the minute she hears a sound
>in the morning, she stands with her front feet on the side of the house and
>sticks her head through the living room window and baas.  All this before
>coffee, no less.  I went to pick up some uneaten hay in the ram paddock to
>toss over to the old folks home.  Junco walked up to me and sniffed a metal
>snap I had in my hand.  He was standing less than a foot from me and just
>sprung at me without any backing up, rammed my hand and then just stood there
>again quietly.  It was easy to just grab him by the horns, so we could walk
>together to the gate. He walked placidly beside me. When I got to the gate, I
>turned him loose and he wandered off.
>
>Why did he ram me?  Maybe because for all his mellow personality, he is still
>a ram - guess that's why they call them rams!  He was raised being handfed
>from the time he was a lamb (not by me). Perhaps, he didn't care for metal
>snaps and wanted an apple. Maybe he's carried over his teaching Joe manners to
>me. He is a very nonaggressive animal and the mellowest ram I've ever seen,
>but something clicked in his mind.  If he had wanted to back up and charge, or
>if he had wanted to charge a second time, he could have hurt me.  As it is, he
>just barely hit a knuckle on my left hand and it was swollen and sore this
>morning and I couldn't move until just a few hours ago.
>
>Rams are rams - I made a mistake by feeling just abit too confident.  Junco
>taught me a lesson in the same mellow way he teaches the baby rams.  Groucho
>would have killed me, but then I would never have put myself in a corner with
>Groucho.
>
>Oh boy, crow for dinner - again!
>
>Linda
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