Annoying things non-sheep owners say to you...

[Queen Mum]

How about "You shouldn't let your sheep and goats live together, they could cross breed."

Shoats, or geep?

Is that what they make?

 

[CritterZone]

Oh and another one that always gets me...

Person: "Your sheep don't have wool, so obviously they are goats."

Me: I think I know what my sheep are. They are registered, purebred, and papered Katahdin HAIR Sheep... Meaning they have HAIR.... Not wool

It's ok, everyone thinks my Jacobs are goats even in full wool. I think its the fact that they have horns and aren't just white. But then again most people think my Angora goats are sheep (or poodles) and they have horns.

We run into the same thing - people insisting our Jacobs are goats because of the horns. I guess they have never seen nor heard of Big Horn Sheep?

 

[purplequeenvt]

I had a teacher at the fair one year get all excited and call her students over to look at a sheep's udder.....only problem....it wasn't a ewe she was looking at......

 

[Southdown]

There's always the questions (or snickering) about rams' scrotum. Little kids ask what it is and adults seem to think it's so funny for some reason.

 

[PendergrassRanch]

I have never had sheep, but I am getting sheep. A friend of mine who has also never had sheep, ALWAYS tells me that sheep are stupid. I don't care if they are stupid or smart. As long as they produce, are healthy and stay in the fencing, its all good

 

[CritterZone]

I don' think sheep are the smartest animals on the farm, but I don't think they act nearly as stupid as cattle!

 

[SheepGirl]

- calling shearing 'shaving' (pet peeve of mine lol)
- calling wool 'fur'
- what do you do with the fur?
- what do you do with sheep?
- can you eat them?

After being at fairs, carnivals, and petting zoos with my sheep for 4+ years, I have heard quite a few annoying/ignorant comments from people that just have no clue lol. Just need to try to remember them! Haha

 

[thestewarts]

3 of my neighbors think our Icelandic are goats lol

 

[Cricket]

In the shop I used to co-own, we sold local alpaca yarn on consignment and we got that, 'oh, it's so beautiful, but the thought of them killing that animal for it's wool . . ." After I explained the shearing to one woman, she gave me a dirty look and said, "well, anything for a sale, huh?" and walked out. We finally had our consigners make up a poster of life on the farm, including shearing.

Sorry, Southdown, I'm a scrotum snickerer! When you're used to seeing bulls, and then you see something about an eighth of their size with ALL that, and wooly to boot, it just strikes you as comical. (yep, lingering streak of immaturity here.)

 

[bcnewe2]

Sorry, Southdown, I'm a scrotum snickerer! When you're used to seeing bulls, and then you see something about an eighth of their size with ALL that, and wooly to boot, it just strikes you as comical. (yep, lingering streak of immaturity here.)

When we first got sheep my son was 8. He watched the sheep doing what sheep do and climbed up on the fence and said. "see that stuff coming out of the daddy?" I said "yes" he said, "those are lamb seeds and she's going to grow a lamb! I'm going to sit her on the fence and wait till it comes out!"

We still tease him! And I am still amazed at the size of a rams business after all these years! So I guess I'm in the snicker camp too!