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What's going on with this flock of sheep please?

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Reviewing today's ride I spotted what seems to be some very well controlled sheep on the aerial photos. 

They arein the field on the inside (left) of 'that' fast, steep grassy corner that has a bit of a reputation for catching you out, especially in the wet.

Can anyone give a decent suggestion about what's going on please?

TIA

Ambrose

 

 


 
Posted : 23/05/2026 11:08 pm
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Posted : 23/05/2026 11:19 pm
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Posted : 23/05/2026 11:25 pm
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@Scotroutes, I know Bernard in the video. He's a local farmer who also happens to have a mahoosive great castle on his land, Castell Carreg Cennen.

The vid was an ad. for Samsung LEDs iirc and I think may be manipulated.  I really should ask him.


 
Posted : 23/05/2026 11:40 pm
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If they are sheep on the photo (I can’t really zoom in enough to see) would the farmer have driven round and “dumped” food out of a trailer and the sheep are eating it? Maybe quad bike and small trailer or tractor and bigger trailer. 

Happens up here in winter, so maybe additional feeding. 


 
Posted : 24/05/2026 5:42 am
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What dlabz said, you often see them in very straight lines here for the same reason, looks odd until you realise 


 
Posted : 24/05/2026 8:04 am
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Posted by: dlabz

If they are sheep on the photo (I can’t really zoom in enough to see) would the farmer have driven round and “dumped” food out of a trailer and the sheep are eating it? Maybe quad bike and small trailer or tractor and bigger trailer. 

Happens up here in winter, so maybe additional feeding. 

 

This is my suggestion as well. Sheep feeding on line of food dumped out quad or from bags by hand.

 


 
Posted : 24/05/2026 8:16 am
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That makes perfect sense, thank you. 🐑🐑🐑🐑


 
Posted : 24/05/2026 8:54 am
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If see seen sheep follow each other in lines like that


 
Posted : 24/05/2026 9:29 am
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Cock and balls would have been more impressive.


 
Posted : 24/05/2026 10:55 am
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Sheep Circles used to be a bit of a 'quiet news day' staple for the press for a while back when crop circles were a thing. 

 

I was on a coach trip through Yugoslavia when it was still Yugoslavia (actually quite perilously close the to the start of the war) and saw what seemed to be flock of sheep that on a hill side spelling out the name of communist revoltionary 'TITO' on a hill side.Which I thought was pretty impressive and we speculated about how they'd been trained or coaxed into doing it  - was it food? were they tethered?- until we got nearer and realised they were actually just boring old rocks.

But with hindsight is that actually more impressive? I imagine it must be incredibly difficult to train rocks to do anything, let alone teach them how to spell.

 


 
Posted : 24/05/2026 11:13 am
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