Oh I Wish I Had Photos!

Well… I am just here to share todays Sheep Saga

Bit bummed I don’t have photos… so you are going to have to let your imaginations run wild.

Little Moo is gone. 🙁 He’s been gone a while.
Before he left he really gave the rickety old fence between our properties a bit of a towelling. Its not a fence that I’d call secure for animals anyway.

So… next door got a sheep. A black sheep that sounds like what a sheep would sound like if it had smoked three packs a day. (Weird Baaaaa)
Clearly lonely. Always comes and shouts at us when we are in the yard and tries to climb the fence.
Is also a bit head-butty.

So, today we are working in the side garden by the paddock, trying to clear it out so it is not a snake haven.

You might be able to see the dodgy fence in the background.

Anyway, we are working away and sheep comes over to BAAAA at us huskily and get our attention.
Jeff gives it attention as he can’t resist an animal. Its trying to head butt him and climbing its little cloven hooves onto the fence.

The inevitable happens… I turn around and there is Sheep IN MY GARDEN.
Oh good. Its got horns too.

Jeff is posted to keep Sheep amused because A. I don’t want it eating and trampling my gardens. B. I don’t want it running onto the highway. C. I don’t fancy being head butted with those horns. So I trot (braless)(who wants to get dressed properly these days anyway?) up to the neighbours house to get them to come and fetch their sheep!

Only Granny is home.
Oh, my son will be home about 4pm (chatter chatter)(I am edging away as I felt I should go back and help Jeff) I get the low down on the slightly dangerous sheep and to watch out for him as he has been head butting her son – who had to smack him with a plank once!!!
She was in full Granny chit chat mode but I escaped, got back to the yard and couldn’t see Jeff… got a rope, was calling out, heard him but couldn’t see him!
Ummm

Oh, thats because he was lying on the ground with the sheep pinned beneath him!!! Poor sheep very stressed and panting like a freight train (and kindly provided me with some sheep poo for the garden… clearly VERY stressed)
We got a rope around him as safely as we could then using his horns as a steering wheel we’ve got him up and guided him down the back to the only place we could think he’d be safe and secure… the chicken coop!

We are in the coop but before releasing Mr Head Butt, I have to evict two chooks out of the coop. One no problems… she’d just have to find another place to pop out an egg… but the other one… more problematic. She is broody and super cranky and bitey. I used some shade cloth to get her out without being savaged too badly and we were finally able to get out of the pen and let Sheep calm down. I went back in to get the rope but he was fine with me. No butting.

Not long after that, son from next door arrives with collar and rope so I go down to help so now he can lead the (by this stage) the very unhappy sheep home. We explain about the fence – really they should have inspected the fences before putting more animals in there – so Sheep will go somewhere else.

We get up to the back door and Granny has arrived in her gumboots after walking down the highway ARMED WITH A LEAD PIPE!!!

She thought it might be needed for the dangerous sheep!
Wide eyed I am looking at her saying “I think if you used that, you’d find yourselves having lamb chops before you were ready!!!”
She’s quite sweet really but said she’s too old to be knocked about by boisterous animals. (I am totally dying by this point)

More chit chat and eventually Granny and her lead pipe equalizer trotted back up the highway to her house.

I think after that we really lost our motivation for weeding!
Jeff had to head into town to pick some stuff up and I am like Wait!!
Had to pick sheeps wool out of his goatee!! Not a good look haha

So… Was anybodys elses day more interesting??
Life… not often boring!

Cheers!