Showing some love with sheep...

Mwalimu-G

Elder Lister
Australian mourns beloved aunt with heart-shaped love ewes
By ROD McGUIRK2 hours ago


In this image taken from video, sheep form the shape of a heart in a field in Guyra, northern New South Wales, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Ben Jackson, a sheep farmer stuck in lockdown, was unable to attend his aunt's funeral, has honored her memory with the ultimate tribute, sheep organized in the shape of a love heart. (Ben Jackson via AP)

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian farmer couldn’t go to his aunt’s funeral because of pandemic restrictions so he paid his respects with a novel alternative: dozens of sheep arranged in the shape of a love heart.
Drone-shot video of pregnant ewes munching barley in a paddock while unwittingly expressing Ben Jackson’s affection for his beloved Auntie Deb was viewed by mourners at her funeral in the city of Brisbane in Queensland state this week.
Jackson was locked down at the time across a state border at his farm in Guyra in New South Wales state, 430 kilometers (270 miles) away.
“It took me a few goes to get it right ... and the final result is what you see. That was as close to a heart as I could get it,” Jackson said on Thursday.
Jackson started experimenting with making shapes with sheep to relieve the monotonous stress of hand-feeding livestock during a devastating drought across most of Australia that broke in the early months of the pandemic.
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He discovered that if he spelled the names of his favorite musical bands with grain dropped from the back of a truck that the flock would roughly adopt the same shape for several minutes.
“It certainly lifted my spirits back in the drought,” Jackson said.
“This heart that I’ve done for my auntie, it certainly seems like it’s had a bit of an effect across Australia,” he added, referring to emotional social media responses.
“Maybe we all just need to give ourselves a big virtual hug,” he said.
Jackson said he was lucky to have any grain left on his property after a mouse plague this year that followed the drought.
He continues to supplement the pregnant ewes’ diet with grain to improve their condition before they give birth
 

It's Me Scumbag

Elder Lister
Australian mourns beloved aunt with heart-shaped love ewes
By ROD McGUIRK2 hours ago


In this image taken from video, sheep form the shape of a heart in a field in Guyra, northern New South Wales, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021. Ben Jackson, a sheep farmer stuck in lockdown, was unable to attend his aunt's funeral, has honored her memory with the ultimate tribute, sheep organized in the shape of a love heart. (Ben Jackson via AP)'s funeral, has honored her memory with the ultimate tribute, sheep organized in the shape of a love heart. (Ben Jackson via AP)

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian farmer couldn’t go to his aunt’s funeral because of pandemic restrictions so he paid his respects with a novel alternative: dozens of sheep arranged in the shape of a love heart.
Drone-shot video of pregnant ewes munching barley in a paddock while unwittingly expressing Ben Jackson’s affection for his beloved Auntie Deb was viewed by mourners at her funeral in the city of Brisbane in Queensland state this week.
Jackson was locked down at the time across a state border at his farm in Guyra in New South Wales state, 430 kilometers (270 miles) away.
“It took me a few goes to get it right ... and the final result is what you see. That was as close to a heart as I could get it,” Jackson said on Thursday.
Jackson started experimenting with making shapes with sheep to relieve the monotonous stress of hand-feeding livestock during a devastating drought across most of Australia that broke in the early months of the pandemic.
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He discovered that if he spelled the names of his favorite musical bands with grain dropped from the back of a truck that the flock would roughly adopt the same shape for several minutes.
“It certainly lifted my spirits back in the drought,” Jackson said.
“This heart that I’ve done for my auntie, it certainly seems like it’s had a bit of an effect across Australia,” he added, referring to emotional social media responses.
“Maybe we all just need to give ourselves a big virtual hug,” he said.
Jackson said he was lucky to have any grain left on his property after a mouse plague this year that followed the drought.
He continues to supplement the pregnant ewes’ diet with grain to improve their condition before they give birth
@Elgin when you grow up, wouldn't you want to be just like Jackson?
 

Masked Titan

Senior Lister
Total tyranny in Australia, they now have to drink alcohol with their face masks on, can't go beyond 5km from their residence, only one person is permitted to do grocery shopping in a family, kids are being jabbed without their parents consent, a guy was shot by cops for not wearing a face mask - but with all this going on the Australian truckers are planning a blocked to paralyse the country and get the country back to the citizens
 

Masked Titan

Senior Lister
Someone tell the truckers a blockade is only effective if they inconvenience other raiya who are going about their business. But if the raiya are not going anywhere...
Nobody is going about their business, it's a total lockdown, 90% of Aussies are behind them
 

It's Me Scumbag

Elder Lister
Someone tell the truckers a blockade is only effective if they inconvenience other raiya who are going about their business. But if the raiya are not going anywhere...
But the raiya will have no food,no TP ( tissue riots anyone? Wapi @The.Black.Templar ) and fuel for their tractors among other necessities required by a people in lockdown...fombeee,kwanza fombe.
 

The.Black.Templar

Elder Lister
Staff member
Total tyranny in Australia, they now have to drink alcohol with their face masks on, can't go beyond 5km from their residence, only one person is permitted to do grocery shopping in a family, kids are being jabbed without their parents consent, a guy was shot by cops for not wearing a face mask - but with all this going on the Australian truckers are planning a blocked to paralyse the country and get the country back to the citizens
They are also suffering from rats
 
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