I Love Sheep
We farmed Herdwick sheep for years, breeding them for sale into other flocks of the same breed as well as for meat. Of all the various breeds of sheep, we found Herdwicks the most interesting, living equally well on the lush grass in Surrey as they do in their normal native mountainous habitat of Cumbria.
I remember an old Cumbrian shepherd saying to me once that it must be a nightmare keeping them contained in our little fields in the south, given that they're used to running free on the Cumbrian hills and mountains. I told him that we'd never found it a problem to which he replied "Aha - that's what you think. The Herdwick is a very clever sheep. They'll be hopping over the fence when you go to bed and then hopping back in before you get up in the morning".
I was never able to disprove his theory, so who knows.
I remember an old Cumbrian shepherd saying to me once that it must be a nightmare keeping them contained in our little fields in the south, given that they're used to running free on the Cumbrian hills and mountains. I told him that we'd never found it a problem to which he replied "Aha - that's what you think. The Herdwick is a very clever sheep. They'll be hopping over the fence when you go to bed and then hopping back in before you get up in the morning".
I was never able to disprove his theory, so who knows.
