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How can we encourage the sort of sheep behaviour that is good for us and makes our life easier and the sort of behaviour that is nature and easy for our sheep too? In this episode we explore sheep behavioural traits, how sheep react, how sheep see and hear and how sheep move. 

This episode will get you thinking like a sheep!!

 Specific Behaviour Traits
Sheep are created with specific behaviour traits. Knowing 
what these traits are can make handling them much easier.
 Sheep are social animals, so try and prevent seclusion.
 Sheep by nature are followers; let them follow - you or each other
 Sheep are docile animals by nature.
 Sheep have good memories; these memories need to be 
positive ones as much as possible.


Sight and Hearing
Sheep and other farm animals have a well developed sense 
of hearing. They capture a wider frequency of sound than is 
audible to our ears.  So talk to them in a calm, 
reassuring voice. When they sense that you mean no harm, 
they will turn to their usual business of eating, drinking and 
feeding their young.
Humans have binocular vision, focusing both eyes 
simultaneously to achieve good depth perception and 
clarity for objects directly in front of them. However humans 
peripheral vision is very limited. Sheep see the world through 
a different set of eyes than ours. Sheep have their eyes set 
on the side of the head. They have a narrow field of 
binocular vision in front of their head and wide peripheral 
fields of monocular vision.
The area in the back of the sheep's head is a blind spot 
when their head is raised. If a sheep is approached from the 
rear, a handler can remain undetected visually and have a 
better chance at catching the animal. With its head down in 
a grazing position the sheep can see in all directions; a good 
defensive adaptation whereby the sheep can see predators' 
from all sides while grazing.

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