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hazel93 Tue 13-Dec-22 12:54:38

As some of you may know we moved to Cornwall earlier this year , our project and all fine.
Turf laid and due to hose pipe ban simply hoped for the best, it has thrived. Anyway, came home after shopping to find 12 sheep happily grazing after obviously deciding our grass was better than the field next door where a small flock were moved yesterday !
Just wish they would eat in straight lines !

Oldnproud Thu 15-Dec-22 17:18:59

Merryweather

Is it badgers or foxes that are deterred by male human urine?
How you perimeter the area is up to you guys ?

Supposedly badgers, but I can tell you for certain that it doesnt work. Let's just say though, in case you are wondering, that we used a watering can rather than sending DH out to apply this supposed deterrent direct grin

dustyangel Thu 15-Dec-22 17:55:10

Quite a few years ago now before that bit of the garden was tamed. Caught in the act before the shepherd caught up with her.

Bijou Thu 15-Dec-22 19:07:11

Foxes are deterred by human urine. My son proved it.

4allweknow Thu 15-Dec-22 19:07:53

Hope you are charging the farmer for grazing rights. A Christmas turkey perhaps!

Alioop Thu 15-Dec-22 19:14:30

When I moved to the country to our new build house (no longer there), I finally got the very large garden levelled and seeded. After a lot of money spent on it, a few weeks we were finally getting a lawn. Well until I came back from shopping to find the farmers cows all over it. Their hooves had messed it all up and the ground was covered in deep holes and I was like a raging lunatic.

Callistemon21 Thu 15-Dec-22 22:08:41

dustyangel

Quite a few years ago now before that bit of the garden was tamed. Caught in the act before the shepherd caught up with her.

She's rather lovely!

Friends were hoping to buy a house in the country then discovered that the farmer next door had the right to take his cows along their drive.
They bought a different house.

Wyllow3 Thu 15-Dec-22 22:25:54

nadateturbe

hazel93

Sorry, I never post photos of anything on a public website.

Understandable Hazel.

Aw, go on...

grannydarkhair Thu 15-Dec-22 22:44:39

HousePlantQueen Itโ€™s the accent which helps to make it so funny, loved it ๐Ÿ˜‚

Yammy Thu 15-Dec-22 22:48:49

Someone in our village was having a garden day with people visiting.
The farmer's cows got loose and as the gate was open went into the garden and paddled in the pond.
Not a dry eye in the village from laughing, none of us knew that cows could read. A sign said"Open Garden".

Dickens Fri 16-Dec-22 07:03:11

Callistemon21

Love it, hazel93

When we lived in Devon, a neighbour used to borrow a couple of sheep from a farmer each year to keep his lawn shorn!

When we lived in Devon, a neighbour used to borrow a couple of sheep from a farmer each year to keep his lawn shorn!

... "lawn shorn" - this one?

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grin

Callistemon21 Fri 16-Dec-22 10:15:11

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Allsorts Fri 16-Dec-22 10:30:14

Joseanne, Is that a real cat? Iโ€™m going to Google and see, because itโ€™s adorable. Been so long since my cat died and said I wouldnโ€™t have another, butโ€ฆ

Joseanne Fri 16-Dec-22 10:34:14

I think so. Its not mine. Look up sheep cat.

grNadpa Fri 16-Dec-22 15:38:52

smile. We spent a few years just outside Corpus Christi, Texas (USA). A Longhorn Steer (bull) wandered onto our property from the neighboring ranch. I ran out to "herd" it back by waving a stick and yelling at it. It worked. Well ... almost. Just as we got a quarter-of-a-mile down the driveway, the steer turn toward me and pawed the ground. I'd seen enough Bugs Bunny cartoons to know what that meant. As I ran back up the driveway my wife, hearing my shouting, came out on the deck. Eye's wide, she raced back inside and returned -- with a camera.

Dickens Fri 16-Dec-22 18:03:28

grNadpa

smile. We spent a few years just outside Corpus Christi, Texas (USA). A Longhorn Steer (bull) wandered onto our property from the neighboring ranch. I ran out to "herd" it back by waving a stick and yelling at it. It worked. Well ... almost. Just as we got a quarter-of-a-mile down the driveway, the steer turn toward me and pawed the ground. I'd seen enough Bugs Bunny cartoons to know what that meant. As I ran back up the driveway my wife, hearing my shouting, came out on the deck. Eye's wide, she raced back inside and returned -- with a camera.

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Purplepixie Fri 16-Dec-22 18:05:44

Fabulous story.

grNadpa Fri 16-Dec-22 21:33:08

Purplepixie

Fabulous story.

I refer to the incident as the Doppler Effect of longhorns: "The horns get larger when they're pointed towards you."

Bellanonna Sat 17-Dec-22 16:11:42

I love your story grNadpa. Of course I hope your wife got a good picture!

fluttERBY123 Sat 17-Dec-22 20:20:37

Callistemon21. In NZ in the sixties I don't think there was such a thing as a lawnmower, one just borrowed a sheep.

Callistemon21 Sat 17-Dec-22 20:21:47

fluttERBY123

๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ were there more sheep than people?