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by jrimclean 3342 days ago
Growing up an a hobby farm with 20-40 (depending on the time of year), this is my experience too. Lambs are playful and full of spunk, but as they grow older they quickly become full-time grazing machines. Rams are just vicious.
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Classic HN here that no matter how obscure the topic, we have posts from 3 different people with real world experience.
I'm not sure that sheep-farming is particularly obscure.
I imagine it is among IT people, who are the prime audience for HN.
Also, it wasn't just sheep farming. It was treating the lambs as pets.
My favorite was the person who happened to be burning a boat for fuel when it was being debated whether a crew could survive a shipwreck for years by using the ship as a fuel source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803552
I enjoyed the "did you win the Putman" episode.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

Aggressive rams are partially a byproduct of testosterone and selective breeding, some small scale farmers will leave rams in with ewes and their newborns to protect them from predators.