Boy (aged about 6 or 7years old): So, you can milk goats but not sheep?
Parent, somewhat uncertainly: Um, no. You can milk sheep - you can get cheese made from sheep's milk. Ewe's milk - lady sheep are called ewes.
Boy: Oh. So you can tell they're goats not sheep 'cos they've got horns?
Parent: Well, no. Some sheep have horns, especially rams - those black and brown and white Jacob's sheep we looked at have horns.
Boy: Oh. Well sheep have woolly coats - you get wool from them, you don't get wool from goats. Goats have different sort of fur. Though some of them were curly weren't they?
Parent: Well actually, those curly ones were Angora goats and people knit with their fleece - but it's called mohair. And you do get curly sheep too...
EDIT: In response to the person who emailed me, the first and third photos are Angora goats, the second is a Jacob sheep, and the last is (I think) a Cotswold sheep and her three lambs. J
5 comments:
I know what he means and also what the parent felt like!!
Love those animals be they sheep or goats!!
Jane
More lovely photos of horned and woolly things. Cows are more straightforward, unless they are steers, heifers or calves.
Hiya!
That sounds like the type of conversations I overhear- Ted says "why are you staring into space" but all the time I'm trying to eavesdrop!
Thanks for dropping by and leaving your kind comment
xx
That second one down is a stunner! :O))))
Somewhere in that wool isn't there a label?(Thanks for your suppotive comments)
Jill
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