Don't Give Up the Sheep

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September/October 1984
By Ron Parker 
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FENCING

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Breeding is a time when your fences will be tested for soundness and effectiveness. A ram with sex on his one-track mind will view a 40-inch fence with scorn and sail over it like a deer as he responds to the siren call of a ewe in heat. Rams who are built for power rather than leaping ability will simply smash through and flatten a woven-wire fence as if it were made of rubber. We had a stubby, ornery, powerful half-Karakul ram who was separated from some ewes by sturdy fence and a two-acre lake. One late summer day he could tolerate no more celibacy, and he just wiped out the woven wire, ran and leapt into the lake, and proceeded to swim clumsily but persistently till he finally reached the ewes. Another ram bred a ewe through a combination woven-and-barbed-wire fence without bothering to jump it. He not only bred her, but also settled her. Never underestimate the inventiveness of a ram in pursuit of a ewe.

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