Photographs are interesting. Christopher looks like a fairly normal sized boy here, but standing next to you he's actually a hubba hubba sized sheep who's almost as broad as he is tall. His fuzzy forehead is hand sized and you can bury your hands deep into his creamy wool. He has one of my favorite fleeces.
Christopher is still very attached to his momma and would like to be as friendly as his sister Maggie, but he's just a bit shy. Sometimes he lets me rub his ears and forehead, and sometimes you can tell he really wants to, but just can't bring himself to do so. I'm not sure why this is as his mother, Krista, is very friendly and Maggie is as well. Sheep definitely have their own personalities.
Look at those big chukka boot legs :-).
Christopher is not good at fighting his way through to the front to battle for cookies, but he does like them if you sneakily toss one back on the ground in front of him. I may set out a couple of flakes of hay out to distract everyone else tonight and then try to sidle up to him and see what he does if I have a cookie in my pocket :-).
Update: He let me walk up to him and I think wanted to take a cookie, but hasn't actually eaten a cookie from a hand before I don't think so he didn't really know what to do. He nibbled right on the edge and then before he could get brave enough to take it, someone else would grab it. We'll practice some more.
3 comments:
I love these individual looks at the sheep. Thank you.
I love getting to know each sheeps!
He is definitely a chonk! A big humble chonk. I hope he gets the hand fed treats figured out, and you have fun trying.
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