Baa-baa blue sheep: How one farmer gave his animals a colourful makeover
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:42 PM on 24th September 2008
We've heard of pink elephants - but how about blue sheep?
This was one of half a dozen rams in a field outside Dudley, near Cramlington, North Tyneside, who'd had a colourful makeover.
It happened because the males in the flock turned into woolly bullies.
Ewe must be joking: This sheep is one of half a dozen that have been painted blue
The colourful show was spotted by a photographer who said: 'It looks like the farmer was a bit heavy-handed with his spray can.'
But the farmer sprayed them with a blue dye so that it would transfer on to females to show mating had taken place.
'But they get bored before they are let out and start fighting with each other,' he said.
No cause for a-lamb: The farmer turned the males blue so that the dye would transfer on the females to show mating had taken place
'That's how they start covering each other in blue dye, while the ewes just get a bit of blue on their backs.
'If you look closely, the all-blue ones are the daddies.
'I'm going to get my leg pulled around here about this.'
The farmer said the ewes and rams, or 'tups', were put together early in the season as he was aiming to get the lambs ready for the spring market.
Baaarmy: When the sheep get bored they start fighting with each other, causing the dye to transfer
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:42 PM on 24th September 2008
We've heard of pink elephants - but how about blue sheep?
This was one of half a dozen rams in a field outside Dudley, near Cramlington, North Tyneside, who'd had a colourful makeover.
It happened because the males in the flock turned into woolly bullies.
The colourful show was spotted by a photographer who said: 'It looks like the farmer was a bit heavy-handed with his spray can.'
But the farmer sprayed them with a blue dye so that it would transfer on to females to show mating had taken place.
'But they get bored before they are let out and start fighting with each other,' he said.
'That's how they start covering each other in blue dye, while the ewes just get a bit of blue on their backs.
'If you look closely, the all-blue ones are the daddies.
'I'm going to get my leg pulled around here about this.'
The farmer said the ewes and rams, or 'tups', were put together early in the season as he was aiming to get the lambs ready for the spring market.
