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The Ornery Shepherd

@theorneryshepherd.bsky.social

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Sheep farmer. I used to research & teach the stuff that bunches Fascist-panties (AKA anthropology & global studies). Purveyor of fine heritage wools and f-bombs. https://theorneryshepherd.etsy.com

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MsBatsngoths 🦇🎃👻 @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 21d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 20d

New bracelets are up in the shop!

TheOrneryShepherd on Etsy

#resist #knitting #knittersagainstfascism

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 22d

They're just SO pretty.
(New sprinkle colorways in our Bulky weight 🧶)

Find em at theorneryshepherd on etsy!

#gulfcoastnativewool #skysheep #farmfresh #buylocal

The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · 24d

If the old man wants caramel corn, the old man gets caramel corn.

He's about 100 in people-years, and he's been a trash panda the entire time, so why get weird about it now? 🤷🏼

#notanalmondmom

The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 23

I once requested that a giant anteater take the left fork in the trail, and it politely did so (I was eating my lunch on the ground in the middle of the right fork).

When in doubt, I always try to be courteous with wildlife. 😊

#peoplehoweverareawholeotherstory #farmsky

The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 22

She NEVER goes walkabout. I have no idea what that was about at. all. 🤷🏼

The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 21

I'll take "Not What I Needed Before my 2nd Cup of Coffee this Morning" for $1000, Alex.

Good thing I still have those awesome Amazonian-rainy-season-mud skills. 😏

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 21

Some shots from my last day at the Gwinnett Fair!

🐑 I'm loving our new GA Sheep sign
🐑 The "Petting Zoo" was a hit once more this year, as was my Diversity in Ag shirt
🐑 Pixie wheel was such a champ & always a crowd favorite 🧶

#countyfair #gasheep #pettingzoo #agisntjustforoldwhiteguys

The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 19

Had a great time helping out with the fleece judging at the Gwinnett County Fair yesterday. There were some real beauties!!

#gasheep #gawool #gwinnettfair #skysheep #gulfcoastnativewool

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 15

Dem Lives Matter bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Sep 15

Reporter: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags for Melissa Hortman who was killed as well?

Trump: Uh, I’m not familiar, who?

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 13

Figured that some of y'all might need a dose of Emotional Support Lewis after this sh!tshow of a week.

And, yes -- he eats his daily noms out of a Publix bakery frosting bucket. We're fancy like that.

#emotionalsupport #momentofzen #farmlife

The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 12

Glad we could help! (That was me on the emails today. 😁)

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yep. If you go on the GCSBA online registry (it's publicly available), there's a whole section dedicated just to rams. Folks post pics -- so it's a good place to see a lot of variety in one go.

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Being horny and hard to kill are basically their defining characteristics. 😁

The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

He absolutely looks like a GCN. And, he's **very** pretty. ♥️ (I'm the current Pres of the GCSBA, so I think just about all of them are beautiful. 😉)

The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yeah. If you read their official 'breed' description, it basically says "not very big; typically no wool on head, belly, or legs; parasite and heat resistant". The rest of their characteristics are ALL over the board. They're a bit like Justice Potter Stewart's definition of pornography. 😏

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

...(basically humping whoever they ran into while grazing the entirety of the SE US over 600 yrs), widely geographically-distributed genetic bottlenecks (island-type effects), would likely make doing something like that functionally difficult. 🤷🏼

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The Ornery Shepherd @theorneryshepherd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Since GCNs are a landrace and not a breed, there may be some markers that one **could** technically choose to say "This is a GCN", but I think that the high degree of genetic variation within the group, historic outbreeding...