Otto Syracuse
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Anyone familiar with Jacob Sheep?
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OP
Otto Syracuse
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One of my neighbors called this morning to see if we owned any sheep, there were 5 of them grazing in her front yard. They are not our sheep! Apparently there is a refugee family down the road a bit that were given these sheep as a "welcome" gift to make them feel more at home. She tried to get them to round them up and secure them, but they either didn't understand or didn't care to. They have been roaming around for almost a week. They are called Jacob Sheep, and I guess they are pretty hardy animals!
Any advice on how to handle them if they come around again? I'd like to corral them in the horse pasture until someone decides what to do with them.
Any advice on how to handle them if they come around again? I'd like to corral them in the horse pasture until someone decides what to do with them.
EddieWalker
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I've seen them on ranches here in TX and consider them to be fairly common. I've never seen any special fencing for them and never thought of them as a problem animal to keep fenced in. I would try baiting them with corn to get them to come around on a regular basis and then either slowly move the bait into a pasture with a gate, or built a fence around the baited area a little at a time until they are used to it. Nets are common here in trapping animals, but that expensive.
dmccarty
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A coworker had a problem with a neighbors sheep. The sheep owner would not fence in his land and the sheep would visit my coworkers place and eat his plants. The sheep owner could care less. The sheep owner started to care when the coworker caught the sheep and had animal control pick up the sheep. I forget the exact number but it was quite expensive for animal control to keep the sheep. There was a per day charge per animal so it added up quickly. The sheep owner suddenly DID care about fencing in his sheep.
Funny thing is that the sheep owner was a lawyer and he liked to tell everyone he was a lawyer. Somehow he thought this would impress people. Well, it did impress on us that he was an a...ss. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Later,
Dan
Funny thing is that the sheep owner was a lawyer and he liked to tell everyone he was a lawyer. Somehow he thought this would impress people. Well, it did impress on us that he was an a...ss. :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Later,
Dan
OP
Otto Syracuse
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Thanks Eddie, apparently alfalfa is one of their favorite foods, and I've got acres of fields around with it. I'll try the corn and see if I get them closer. If not the deer will enjoy it. My neighbor was here today with some border collies trying to locate them. No luck.
OP
Otto Syracuse
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I got the impression that the refugee family could not or was not able to contain them. It's possible they are just not accustomed to keeping their animals restrained and that it is just normal for the animals to roam around.
Either way, we are trying to round them up and get them into the horse pasture until someone figures out what to do with them. In the meantime, they could get hurt or cause an accident on the road. It is not completely rural where I am.
Either way, we are trying to round them up and get them into the horse pasture until someone figures out what to do with them. In the meantime, they could get hurt or cause an accident on the road. It is not completely rural where I am.
