They are horribly dumb, especially compared to other farm animals like cows or pigs.
I worked in a farm as a teenager. Getting sheep out of trouble was a secondary duty.
Highlights:
- One managed to hang itself from a large garbage can full of grain when a kid left it open. It literally jumped up to try and get in, and got stuck on rim.
- Remember the Disney "chip and dale" episode where they borrowed Donald Duck's sailboat to get nuts from a tree on a little island? 3 sheep tried to do that without a boat and drowned.
- Another somehow impaled itself on farm machinery in the middle of a 10 acre field. No idea why.
I worked in a farm as a teenager. Getting sheep out of trouble was a secondary duty.
Highlights:
- One managed to hang itself from a large garbage can full of grain when a kid left it open. It literally jumped up to try and get in, and got stuck on rim.
- Remember the Disney "chip and dale" episode where they borrowed Donald Duck's sailboat to get nuts from a tree on a little island? 3 sheep tried to do that without a boat and drowned.
- Another somehow impaled itself on farm machinery in the middle of a 10 acre field. No idea why.