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05-30-2008, 02:27 AM
I don't remember this as I was 2 years old, but all this sheep raising talk lately has gotten a few stories out of my Dad.
Well as you know we used to raise sheep, a lot of them,and of course to get lambs you have to have Ewe's and Rams. I guess I was in the pen with this one Ram when the darn thing came up and butted me. My Dad swooped me up and started out of the pen, so the Ram decided to head butt my Dad. Unable to defend himself holding me, he got rammed pretty hard. (pun intended) So he put me down outside the pen and cold-cocked the Ram with a shovel.
Well Rams have tough skulls so it did not phase him. Now really mad, Dad went in the house and called the cattle dealer to have him hauled away. When the guy showed up he was expecting one of our bulls or heifers, not a sheep and he had half a trailer full of cattle on. He kept saying that the cattle would stomp all over that sheep and kill it, but Dad would not allow him to leave with out that silly Ram, even if it meant certain death in the cattle trailer. He was not having it around.
Reluctantly the guy took it and when he opened up the trailer at the slaughterhouse, he was surprised to see the Ram had the cattle scared and pushed right up against the headboard of the trailer, not only alive and well, but king of the trailer!!
So then they let the Ram out and he went headlong for the holding pen. The gate was closed but undeterred he kept head butting the gate making it rattle time and time again. The slaughterhouse guy finally came out thinking a cow had gone berserk. He took one look at that foolish Ram, pulled out his gun and said "I'll cure you", and that was it...mutton!!
Well as you know we used to raise sheep, a lot of them,and of course to get lambs you have to have Ewe's and Rams. I guess I was in the pen with this one Ram when the darn thing came up and butted me. My Dad swooped me up and started out of the pen, so the Ram decided to head butt my Dad. Unable to defend himself holding me, he got rammed pretty hard. (pun intended) So he put me down outside the pen and cold-cocked the Ram with a shovel.
Well Rams have tough skulls so it did not phase him. Now really mad, Dad went in the house and called the cattle dealer to have him hauled away. When the guy showed up he was expecting one of our bulls or heifers, not a sheep and he had half a trailer full of cattle on. He kept saying that the cattle would stomp all over that sheep and kill it, but Dad would not allow him to leave with out that silly Ram, even if it meant certain death in the cattle trailer. He was not having it around.
Reluctantly the guy took it and when he opened up the trailer at the slaughterhouse, he was surprised to see the Ram had the cattle scared and pushed right up against the headboard of the trailer, not only alive and well, but king of the trailer!!
So then they let the Ram out and he went headlong for the holding pen. The gate was closed but undeterred he kept head butting the gate making it rattle time and time again. The slaughterhouse guy finally came out thinking a cow had gone berserk. He took one look at that foolish Ram, pulled out his gun and said "I'll cure you", and that was it...mutton!!