A low key stampede, but these sheep were on a mission.
As part of their Heritage Breeds program Middleton Place maintains a herd of Gulf Coast Sheep that roam the grounds freely during the day.
Herd of Sheep
Every afternoon the animal staff go through a process of securing the animals for the night.
Herd of Sheep – Getting Closer, Me not ready with 100-400 mm lens!
The sheep know the routine and easily headed towards their enclosure when it was their turn.
Herd of Sheep
They got a surprise when they got closer to their nighttime quarters and decided they would mill around rather than go by a pressure-washer that a worker had been using to clean fence that evidently hadn’t been there when they left that morning.
Herd of Sheep, Milling Around
Great story!
Thanks, and thank you for stopping by!
LOL, I absolutely LOVE sheep Ellen so these were great fun! We saw herds of them in Australia and NZ and they were ALMOST my favorite thing – right after the koalas 😊. Do you suppose we could talk the park into bringing in a few of those LOL?
Sweet sheep, fun stuff with some of those ‘expressions’! 😊
Organized chaos 😂😂😂