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dragonlady7) wrote2018-12-12 11:13 pm
dragonlady7) wrote2018-12-12 11:13 pm
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Hello! I was reading your addition to a post about sheep and solar panels. I was wondering if you co
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I do not recollect! Alas, you’re not the first to ask! I went to the Sheep and Wool Festival’s website to see if there was a list of what farms were there, but I couldn’t find one, only vendors– and it wasn’t a vendor, it was a farmer, so. Oh, here are the exhibitors– but none of the sheep breeds mentioned are familiar.
I wrote up what breeds I did see at the Sheep and Wool festival here, but I did not remember even at the time which breed it was that the woman was talking about. I know it wasn’t any of the ones I mention specifically in the paragraph toward the bottom of that entry!
Either my mother or sister took the woman’s business card, so I’ll drop them both a line and ask if they still have it. That’s the only lead I’ve got, I’m afraid!
The sheep she was shearing might have been pale brown, but mostly all I have to go on is her description, which did match the sheep in front of her– smallish, not jumpy, sheep-looking sheep. And whatever it was, it was a hybrid cross of something they were trying to establish as its own breed.
For real though, if you’re pondering a solar installation and looking for sheep to graze under it, you might be better off approaching it from “what kind of sheep do people keep around here” because climate may be more of a determining factor. Within that subset, you could also look for smaller breeds, and ask the farmers whether they tend to be jumpers/climbers, or not. (The more wild-type sheep are probably more climby, so like, Jacobs and Icelandics are not gonna be your answer.)
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I do not recollect! Alas, you’re not the first to ask! I went to the Sheep and Wool Festival’s website to see if there was a list of what farms were there, but I couldn’t find one, only vendors– and it wasn’t a vendor, it was a farmer, so. Oh, here are the exhibitors– but none of the sheep breeds mentioned are familiar.
I wrote up what breeds I did see at the Sheep and Wool festival here, but I did not remember even at the time which breed it was that the woman was talking about. I know it wasn’t any of the ones I mention specifically in the paragraph toward the bottom of that entry!
Either my mother or sister took the woman’s business card, so I’ll drop them both a line and ask if they still have it. That’s the only lead I’ve got, I’m afraid!
The sheep she was shearing might have been pale brown, but mostly all I have to go on is her description, which did match the sheep in front of her– smallish, not jumpy, sheep-looking sheep. And whatever it was, it was a hybrid cross of something they were trying to establish as its own breed.
For real though, if you’re pondering a solar installation and looking for sheep to graze under it, you might be better off approaching it from “what kind of sheep do people keep around here” because climate may be more of a determining factor. Within that subset, you could also look for smaller breeds, and ask the farmers whether they tend to be jumpers/climbers, or not. (The more wild-type sheep are probably more climby, so like, Jacobs and Icelandics are not gonna be your answer.)
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