...most animals and birds are either to look fierce or are camouflaged, but sheep seem to be shouting "LOOK AT ME!! I'M STUPID AND EDIBLE!". Shouldn't they be green?

Last edited: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 1:31:29 PM

A: White against green helps the farmers see them if they wonder off.
B: They are fluffy to keep them warm at certain points in the year...

Well if thats the case wouldn't it be better if they were a luminous glow in the dark colour? And anyway, unless the farmer paints them its not like its HIM choosing their colour.

What paint to paint a sheep?

Edit: if more than one sheep is "sheep". Surely the singular of "sheep" is "shoop"?

Last edited: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 2:42:16 PM

Except for the black sheep. ;)

Seriously though, I'd say the sheep we have today were bred until they produced white wool since its easier to dye. Sheep skin varies just like ours, with black and white under the fluff.

@Bloop what you just said about the "Shoop" thing has been used in one of my drama sketches! :P

Last edited: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 1:43:38 PM

Bloop - man you have way too much spare time on your hands mate..

Everyone knows that lamb chops are red.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BAAAAAAAAAAA

But why are they red? Especially when they change to black during cooking (or is that just me).

If you take a bandsaw to a sheep and have a look inside is it like a big multicoloured lump of wondrousness? White on the outside to white/black to red? Oh and the brown bit at the end.

Humm... I think thats been done actually.

Haaaahhhaaaa just pissed myself XD

Hmm... Im quite bored and the idiocy of this thread is making me feel quite sheepish

Baaaaaaaad man Bloop. You are baaaaaaaaaad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_husbandry ... After researching indepth (by typing in a few words into google) I came to be a little dissapointed at the definition of sheep husbandry... I thought it was going to be a reference to either the welsh or people from new zealand.

*tongue firmly in cheek*

Edit:... You have no idea what I had to trawl through to find this

Last edited: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 3:08:46 PM

I think a better question is why are sheep so darn sexy?

...or is it just me? :S

Hmm I'm Welsh, what you trying to say..... :'(

...is that not to do with selective breeding by shepherds? Hundreds of years of sheepfarmers making sure the sexiest sheep have been adequately fertilised.

Edit: tjay? I thought you were 'merican... Teehee oops.

Last edited: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 3:08:13 PM

Grrrrrr no im all welsh! And its not T-Jay, they are cross's!!!! Lol how many times do I have to say people! :P

lol! That says it!
Now...
Beware what you say about the sheep... 2 Moderators are former Black Sheep Sheep. X/
We have to let you speak due to the accursed first amendment, but be nice. Baaaa!

As my uncle raises sheep on the ranch in Montana (his wife is a very unhappy woman), I have found that sheep are the dumbest of the domestic animals. >sry Hugo don't ban me<. It is either that or they are all suicidal. They always find a way to die ---- eat poison, walk into a swamp, strangle themselves in a fence, headbut me in the b*** (oh yeah I shot that one myself), or try to climb a tree.

Don't get me started! Baaaaaa!

^lol! I bet that will become a new army now...:P

Oooh, bagpipes. So who's all eating haggis tonight? Stuffed sheep intestine not just tickle the tastebuds?

Edit: and incase anyone was wondering what it was stuffed with:
Set of sheep's heart, lungs and liver (cleaned by a butcher)
One beef bung
3 cups finely chopped suet
One cup medium ground oatmeal
Two medium onions, finely chopped
One cup beef stock
One teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
One teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon mace

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It will be the perfect topper for Black pudding I had this morning. :S

@ Rx: That sheep ^^^^ has been smoking some unholy Special Nutrients! :o

OK, here is a Sheep joke. What makes the sound ssss.. Boom!....BAAAAAA! ?

OK here's the answer: An elephant F#@%ing a sheep!! %)

Ok here's another sheep joke.

Whats a sheep tied to a lamppost in aberdeen/wales/new zealand (delete where appropriate)...

A leisure centre.

And another equally prejudiced one.

Two sheep herders in wales are flying the herd to a new farm. Suddenly, the engine fails and the plane begins to fall quickly to the ground.
SH1: Quick! Grab a parachute and jump!
SH2: What about the sheep?!?
SH1: F**k the sheep!!!!
SH2: (pause) Do you think we have time?

P.s... Its real nice to realise that I've landed myself in with so many fellow sheep enthusiasts

Last edited: Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 10:50:22 AM

OMG I'm having flashbacks to my former glory years

Baaaaa!

A Scotsman buys several sheep, hoping to breed them for wool. After several weeks, he notices that none of the sheep are getting pregnant, and he calls a vet for help. The vet tells him that he should try artificial insemination.
The Scotsman doesn't have the slightest idea what this means but, not wanting to display his ignorance, he only asks the vet how he will know when the sheep are pregnant. The vet tells him that they will stop standing around and will, instead, lie down and wallow in the grass when they are pregnant.
The Scotsman hangs up the phone and gives the matter some thought. He comes to the conclusion that artificial insemination means he has to impregnate the sheep.
So, he loads the sheep into his lorry, drives them out into the woods, has sex with them all, brings them back and goes to bed.
Next morning, he wakes and looks out at the sheep. Seeing that they are all still standing around, he concludes that the first try didn't take, and he load them into the lorry again. He drives them out to the woods, has sex with each sheep twice for good measure, brings them back and goes to bed.
Next morning, he wakes to find the sheep still just standing around. One more try, he tells himself, and he proceeds to load them up and drive them out to the woods again. He spends all day having sex with the sheep and, upon returning home, falls into bed exhausted.
The next morning, he's unable even raise himself from the bed to look at the sheep. He asks his wife to look out and tell him if the sheep are laying in the grass. "Nae," she says, "they're all in the lorry and one of them's honking the horn."

Wait wait sheep are white if the wool is to keep them warm why its it white white blocks off heat not like black which retains heat
making them warm

Jay, that is honestly one of the funniest jokes I have ever heard in my life! :P

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/sheep/