[Jacob-list] Outcast ewe

[Linda]

OMG - I hope she doesn't get murdered! I don't think it will go that far 
- no one pursues her more than a few feet and she knows how to run.

ARTHUR PARTRIDGE wrote:

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>> Three of the 5 ewes are really aggressive towards her 

>> - and one of them is her mother. I don't quite understand why the three 

>> ewes are so intolerant of her. She's a very timid ewe (around other 

>> sheep - friendly with people) and it might be that she just doesn't 

>> stand up for herself. Any suggestions?

>>

>> Linda

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> Hi Linda,

>     Reminds me of a similar situation, except these are two adult wethers,

> two castrated rams, and a ram.  I had an 'outcast wether'.  A lady brought

> back a two-yr-old wether that she had raised as a bottle-baby.  The 'boys'

> were very aggressive towards this wether.  He was timid too, perhaps from

> being a bottle baby and raised around humans.  A human analogy would be

> like putting a gay guy in with a bunch of skin heads.  I realized that they

> wouldn't accept this new addition so I planned to take him to the butchers.

> Then one day I came home and he was lying dead in the paddock.  Murdered!! 

> I think I know who did it, he seemed to be the most aggressive towards this

> sheep.  It wasn't the ram or castrated rams, it was one of the adult

> wethers.  At least I think I know who did it, but I wasn't there.  Maybe

> they all ganged up on him.  Looked like a broken neck and death had been

> recent so I was able to quickly take him to the butchers and save the meat.

> I will never put a bottle-baby wether in with rams/wethers again.

>

> Hope this doesn't happen in your case.  Maybe ewes aren't  murderers.  I

> think in my case, the other sheep could sense that there was something very

> different about this wether.  Being a bottle baby and in close contact with

> humans made him different.  In your case, I don't know why the ewes are

> aggressive towards the one ewe.  I just hope it doesn't end up tragically. 

> I am interested in finding out what happens.  Could ewes act the same way

> as these rams/wethers??   

>

> Cathy

> Moscow, Idaho

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