Sheep

[IvyBeagle]

Whats it like living next door to a field with sheep? Its a meadow part of the year and sheep the rest.

Quiet most of the time, not overly smelly unless you're close to their food/water/field access. Lambing can get noisy, but watching the lambs in the evening makes up for it. Probably the least offensive farm animal.

O good thank you :) We lived next to a field with sheep in when I was a child but I don't really remember.

pretty quiet unless someone goes in with cake

or any kind of bag

They make a loud bleating noise when the lambs get taken off the ewes (they cry all night) or when they get shorn (they bleat all day). But it's only a couple of days a year.

They don't really cry JamNan, more wander round looking for their lost lambs. They give up after about 12 hrs.

After they are clipped (sheared/ shorn) the increased noise is probably more to do with lots of sheep gathered in a confined space before they get re-distributed out into all the fields rather than they are particularly bothered about being clipped.

We keep sheep (only a flock of 60 mind which is enough!) and my bedroom window is 1 meter from the field they're in. Mostly quiet but when the nuts bag is being shaken christ they make a bloody noise.

But its lovely when they're lambing. and being able to see when they're ready to lamb is fab. I could watch them for hours.

erm......I do....with a can of lager or glass of wine in hand, and the sun setting ...

Westmoorland - funny how we use different words for the same thing! Cake for you means a nice cake for me. But the welsh word for your cake is "blawd" which translated to flour!

ah yeah well we call them nuts too. But cake is the colloquial around here.

What do you call the male sheeps.

They are 'tups' here. Tups that go tupping!

just a ram! But maybe the older generations have their own words!

Sheep nuts & cattle cake

We currently have about 1000 of the little buggers. I like to think we're fairly neighbour friendly apart from speining (when they're split from their lambs - but my partner moves them well away from the village for this). It may be a bit less 'social' if the field is also used for mowing - then you might get late night tractors/trailers and muck spreading.

And we have cake, ewes (pronounced yows) and tups here