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Is there any advantage to fluorescent sheep?
By OUTDOORSmagic on 12/12/2001 12:31:29
We think it's a throw back to the 80s. After all, sheep are as prone to fads as anyone else.
There's been a lot of talk about how dangerous relying on using Cairns to navigate mountain routescan be, but imagine how much more dangerous it would be if you used sheep. Sheeps' glow-in-the-dark properties make them perfect beacons at dusk
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Snowdonian Mountain Bequeathed To Sheep
By Jon on 01/04/2003 10:19:37
A Welsh hill farmer has left his land including one of the area's finest peaks to his flock of prize-winning Badger Faced Welsh Mountain Sheep
A Welsh farmer has bequeathed land, including one of Snowdonia'smost spectacular mountains, to his beloved sheep.Terry Davis and his family had farmed the area below Moel Siabodfor over 70 years concentating on building a flock of pure-bred, prize
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Sheep Atrocity Stuns Cumbria
By Jon on 06/06/2006 15:08:41
Lake District locals were left reeling today after a flock of sheep were forced to perform unnatural acts captured in a clandestinely circulated video nasty
to the Lakes, the latesthilarious GoLakes prank is a 'real-life flock of singing sheep fromthe Lake District' belting out a toe-curlingly awful version of Landof Hope and Glory.There's even a screamingly unfunny video featuring 'a PierluigiCollina' lookalike
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It's Those Freakin' Sheep Again...
By Jon on 29/11/2005 16:51:19
Sheep are being cynically fleeced by Lake District tourist bosses in a callous move to garner pre-Christmas headlines and promote the area we can reveal.
Those whacky folk at the Cumbria Tourist Board are at it again.Not content with their Crazy Frog bashing 'Baarmy Sheep' ring tone,they've now launched their own ovine version of Jingle Bells to rivalthe froggy Christmas single released later
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Cam-o-sheep To Confuse Cats...
By Jon on 12/12/2003 09:06:56
A Scottish farmer has painted her sheep with stripes to confuse marauding mammoth moggies, but we reckon she's forgotten one small, but crucial detail...
Here's a cracking Friday morning story for you - aScottish farmer has spray-painted her sheep with stripes to deter bigcat attacks.Charlotte Brayley reportedly made up zebra-type striped spraystencils then used red, green and purple paint
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Lakeland Sheep Game Takes On World Cup...
By Jon on 12/06/2006 12:53:10
New from the Cumbria Tourist Board is an animated football sheep game aimed at bigging up the Lake District's potential as a refuge from the relentless horror of the World Cup ;-)
gamefeaturing hyperactive - in ovine terms - sheep dodging bouncingfootballs as they hurtle across a stylised green landscape.At the end of it all, in the opposite direction to 'football' isthe Lake District, geddit? Okay, so it's not exactly Quake 5, but it
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Not Over Till The Fat Sheep Singes
By Jon on 02/01/2002 11:38:45
It's three months since the last outbreak, just one county still has infected status, but 2100 sheep were culled in Northumbria yesterday...
.The lifting of infected status from Cumbria, Durham and Yorksleaves Northumbria as the sole 'infected' county, but with the areaon the brink of being declared 'disease free', Defra yesterdayslaughtered a prize flock of 2100 sheep in the North Tyne Valley
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Monster Sheep Shorn In New Zealand
By Jon on 28/04/2004 14:20:00
Shrek, a merino wether, avoided shearing for six years, growing a monstrous fleece in the process, but was finally cornered and shorn live on television... Should make a good few pairs of socks :-)
A merino sheep which managed to evade shearers for six years hasfinally been cornered and shorn in New Zealand.The ten-year old merino known as Shrek, apparently hid himself atshearing time with the result that his coat continued to grow into ahuge
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A Lot Less Bovver Than A Sheep
By Industry Insider on 20/04/2001 08:40:00
Scoop unmasking of radical contingency plans to stop Lake District turning to scrubland
Lake District preservation organisation 'Friends of the Fells' isappealing to walkers, climbers and mountain bikers to stockpilelawnmowers as part of a radical new conservation scheme.'In the event of the Herdwick sheep being culled,' says Fo
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Suicide Sheep Lands On Woman, Stuffed Ram Raided
By Jon on 02/08/2001 13:43:00
.. and it's all true folks, really it is.
It's a bit of a quiet day on the news front, so in traditionalsilly season style, we thought we'd bring you a couple of sheepytales 'Suicide Sheep Lands On Woman' and 'Stuffed Ram Raided...'Apparently the Austrian sheep - we assume it's Austrian
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