The caption said that it was a Registered Oxford Ram that was 3 years old.
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Aunt Naomi’s Story (Part 30)
We raised calves when I was about eight. We purchased a powered or granular feed for them that was mixed with water. This came in a 5-gallon bucket and it was called KAFFA. I asked Mahlon what KAFFA meant. He said, “It stands for “Keep All Filthy Farts Away.” I was always amazed and intrigued at the mischief he could come up with. Once he bet me 25-cents I would not bite a large green caterpillar in half. Well, I did it and proceeded to spit a lot and wash my mouth out with water. I don’t remember if he ever paid me or not! (He paid me in 2009 J)
I had a little black lamb when I was probably six or so. It was given to me because it was a runt, I guess. It followed me around all the time. I bottle fed it but it got sick and died. Mahlon took it down over the hill and told me he put it in a certain big stump. I don’t know what he really did with it, but I always felt good knowing it was in that stump.
Photo Friday
Sheep buck bucket… by Uncle Mahlon
Later on when we moved to Selma’s place we had sheep. Now Vernon was always so long legged he could do anything and get away with it. He would make the sheep buck mad and get the buck to running at him and soon as the buck would lunge on him he would jump up in the air and the sheep would run through his legs.
One day Beatrice and I were going down in the woods with a bucket. I don’t remember what we were going after. All at once something hit me and it was the sheep buck. He had hit me so hard he mashed the bucket flat. It made me so mad I tried to catch the sheep buck to kill him but I couldn’t catch him. So that was my experience with the sheep buck until years later when we moved to the last place. When I was bigger I tried what Vernon did. I’d make the sheep buck real mad and he’d take out running and then I’d go real slow until I had him lined up with a stump down by the pear tree and I’d jump out of the way. He hit that stump so hard his nose sarted bleeding and I thought I’d killed him. Dad’s prize registered sheep buck! I didn’t do that again. He lived.