My Tribe
☆ May 10, 2012
Rams and bucks.
The studs of the ovines.
For those of you who don’t have the opportunity to analyze the testicles of various animals in your day to day life, I can tell you that rams and bucks have the biggest balls comparative to body size of any animal I have ever seen.
They’re the size of bull balls, but bulls have 1000+ pounds on a ram. If men had balls proportionate to rams, they would not be able to wear pants.
Well, maybe these pants.
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May 10th, 2012 @ 8:48 am
ROLF!!!!!!!!!!!
Those pants – yikes….. I don’t think I would like all that flapping fabric…
May 10th, 2012 @ 8:51 am
Thanks for the morning chuckle.
May 10th, 2012 @ 8:55 am
HAHAHA-Great visual-thanks
May 10th, 2012 @ 9:10 am
Love the pic right before the last..he is handsome!
May 10th, 2012 @ 9:14 am
Fleece! Were you ever able to get your spinning wheel up and running?
May 10th, 2012 @ 9:14 am
You just brought back a fond memory and of course a good chuckle with this post!!! I fell in love afew years ago with a Cheviot Ram named MegaBuck at our local fair, I spent quite abit of time with him that day and talked about him for weeks after our visit…he’s a National Champion now!!! At the time I was able to talk to the li’l gal’s father that raised him as she was in one of the show tents with some ewes she’d raised. I couldn’t believe what a hunk he was but so amazingly gentle…as I’d always heard that rams were aggressive!!! He was then and is still now from what I’ve heard since he was sold and now lives in Montana or Neveda I think a real sweetheart just like his father before him from what the li’l gal’s father told me! He let me pet him and hug him and he talked to me alot. The ewes that were around him had very soft voices but his was incredibly deep like if he was a man he’d sound like Rocky Balboa does… Of course I didn’t mention it to his owners but I couldn’t believe how large his testicles were either!!!! I did say something to my boyfriend about it later and we both had a private laugh…Good lord what a sack he had!!!! ;)
May 10th, 2012 @ 9:22 am
Those are stunning portraits! Thanks for shooting them from the front and letting your words tell the rest of the story.
May 10th, 2012 @ 9:25 am
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is great morning reading material. On vacation trips I am always the one checking out the size of other animals “equipment” much to the chagrin of my traveling companions. :)
May 10th, 2012 @ 9:41 am
Never thought I’d request ball pictures on someone’s blog, but let’s see those bad boys! I have a cat who, before he was neutered, had a rather impressive pair. When he would walk away from you with his tail up, you could see them actually bouncing. You could practically hear the AC/DC song playing as he strutted around.
May 10th, 2012 @ 9:42 am
I love the nose wrinkle on the second one!
Not as drastic as the pants you posted, but there’s a company that makes ballroom jeans for men.
http://www.duluthtrading.com/store/mens/duluth-ingenuity/mens-ballroom-jeans/mens-ballroom-jeans.aspx
May 10th, 2012 @ 10:01 am
Those are beautiful portraits, I especially like the profile on the third one. I’d like to know their breeds though, can you shed some light on that? I’m wondering which have the wrinkly noses and which are the black-faced ones. They’re all handsome! And, he he, yeah… their ‘equipment’ can be pretty impressive! LOL
May 10th, 2012 @ 10:08 am
It is not an easy feat to get me to smile after one cup of coffee, much less laugh. You did both. I am so happy that I now have this information. I fear that I will be checking out animal balls much more frequently now though.
May 10th, 2012 @ 10:15 am
Forgive me, but I must.
Baa ram ewe! Baa ram ewe! To you breed, your fleece, your clan be true! Sheep be true, baa ram ewe.
I love sheep. They’re such kind, happy, patient creatures.
May 10th, 2012 @ 10:25 am
oh my very funny visual :) beautiful faces..my experience with sheep is from afar; here is sw wyoming, one of the local ranchers herds his sheep in right past our office here in the desert. my coworkers laugh as i am so amazed at the sight of several hundred sheep going past our windows with their Great Pyranees sheep dogs..i grew up in Cleveland and we didnt’ have this!! wonderful site..thanks for sharing your beautiful ‘tribe’
May 10th, 2012 @ 10:26 am
Such stunning portraits – Wow! Thanks for the giggle this morning too. ;)
May 10th, 2012 @ 11:00 am
And now my day can continue in contentment that I know about ram balls :-)
May 10th, 2012 @ 11:07 am
Have you ever seen a male rat? I understand squirrels are pretty impressive too. But I still think rats are pretty big compared to body size.
That’s quite a variety of sheep. (Was that a goat thrown in?) Do they all live on the farm? I don’t recall seeing many sheep pictures. Just mostly horses and cows.
Are they shorn and spun, woven, knitted and crocheted?
May 10th, 2012 @ 11:31 am
Beautiful portraits. I wish I had friends like these.
(I think my Chinese hamster wins this one, proportionally speaking—they’re about 25% of his total length.)
May 10th, 2012 @ 12:35 pm
Haha, great pics and comparisons. Thinking of those pants and ram balls together in one mental image is definitely chuckle worthy.
May 10th, 2012 @ 12:47 pm
“My Tribe”?? Are they part of the Farmily or some one else’s you photoed? They appear to be a variety of breeds. Are they all part of one group?
Just think of all the lovely, warm fleece you could get off them.
Sheep and goats are “interesting characters” to know. Never a dull moment and you wouldn’t need a lawn mower.
May 10th, 2012 @ 12:50 pm
ok ummm… ew
May 10th, 2012 @ 12:54 pm
My heart is with the sheep. So this post is my favorite one ever of all time :)
May 10th, 2012 @ 12:57 pm
To answer Qs ~ the white faced ones are rambouillet and the black are suffolk. They live together on a sheep ranch nearby. No goats are pictured. They’re my tribe because I’m an Aries!
May 10th, 2012 @ 1:58 pm
You are so funny. I’ve devoured your Charlie book and am almost caught up on the archives. What a treat you have been!!! So happy to have found your Farmily and for the little insights into your brave and wonderful world. Keep up the great everything!!!
May 10th, 2012 @ 2:24 pm
…I dunno, Mice & Squirrels seem to be pretty well endowed!
May 10th, 2012 @ 3:46 pm
Yes Rikku!
Baa ram ewe! Baa ram ewe! To you breed, your fleece, your clan be true! Sheep be true, baa ram ewe.
Although Mr Four should really be a gal, and her name would be Leia. Princess Leia.
May 10th, 2012 @ 3:49 pm
I am so pleased someone else noticed… I did once mention it to another woman as we passed a group of rams in a pen and she said “don’t be ridiculous, those are udders”
There were a number of possible answers to this… so I kept quiet.
Anyway, yeah.
May 10th, 2012 @ 4:14 pm
Had no idea they have beautiful faces.
May 10th, 2012 @ 4:30 pm
har, i like that other folks notice these things! along the same line, our boar is in a pasture about 200 yards downhill from the garden and i can see his while i’m up there amongst the lettuce and radishes.
May 10th, 2012 @ 4:48 pm
Love! One ram on a farm I used to work at would come over to have his chin scratched if we were in his pasture or working on the fence.
May 10th, 2012 @ 4:54 pm
Hilarious! My cowboy said to me once when we were herding our bulls, “I wish I had balls like that so I wouldn’t have to carry these around.” Ha! He’s dreamin’!
May 10th, 2012 @ 7:06 pm
Have you seen rattie torpedoes? They’re wonderfully large, soft, and squishy. I love them. (I’ve had 28 rats over the years.)
May 10th, 2012 @ 7:54 pm
Boar balls are also pretty impressive, though not hung in such a saggy sack. They are neatly mounted on the rear end like spare tires sticking out there!
May 10th, 2012 @ 9:45 pm
LOL I had to go back to the top to look and see if I missed something in the photos! Love how you mix things up around here. They are beauties!
May 11th, 2012 @ 6:18 am
oh look at the SHEEP!!! why is that one dude’s horns not as curly as the other? are they different breeds of sheep or do they just vary that way, like I have curly hair and you don’t?
wonderful WONDERFUL sheep pictures!!!!!!!
May 11th, 2012 @ 6:31 am
I once saw some male squirrels in Louisiana. Their “nuts” were soooo huge! I swear, if human men had nuts that big, they’d have to walk around with a wheel barrel in front of them to push them around in.
May 11th, 2012 @ 7:07 am
That truly made my laugh! Thanks!
May 11th, 2012 @ 7:18 am
Thank you for the perfect mixture this morning. Comic relief and beautiful pictures ~ much needed. I haven’t read all of the comments above, but I for one want to see a ball pic!! LOL Sorry, I guess I’m a Ram perv because I’m an Aries too!
May 11th, 2012 @ 8:07 am
love sheep, you will have to learn how to spin!
May 11th, 2012 @ 8:23 am
I don’t believe you…..visual proof please. What a group of comments, almost wet myself over Sue’s friend calling them udders. My eyes opened really big for that one. Good post Shreve and simply gorgeous pictures.
May 11th, 2012 @ 8:24 am
I love sheep, rams, ewes… . Here is an artist who paints wonderful black faced sheep:
http://www.rebeccakinkead.com/flock(clearbluesky).html
Actually she is fabulous at everything she paints, but I love her sheep, saw some at McLarry Modern gallery in Santa Fe and fell in love!
May 11th, 2012 @ 8:31 am
Beautiful animals!!!!!!! I like sheep, though goats are my weakness.
about testes – Rams are huge, but the large swine they have in Scotland are disproportionately larger – like 2 large cantaloupe in a sack. And yes, as someone above said – male rats. An animal that is less than a pound in weight, and w/o tail is under a foot long, um. Huge.
Ok, why am I thinking about testicles before coffee?
I love you, Shreve!!!
May 11th, 2012 @ 10:13 am
these portraits are phenomenal. incredibly well done. something about the wonky ears of the second from the last one has me instantly in love with him…
May 11th, 2012 @ 4:47 pm
I just showed this and the pics of the pants to my husband. He mumbled something about inferiority complexs and wondered away.
May 11th, 2012 @ 5:24 pm
Nice work with the pics. You then cracked me up.
May 12th, 2012 @ 7:08 am
Ha! I just wrote about “Hammer Pants” today. And how in-fashion they are in Spain and Italy. Of course your pics are stunning.
By the way, being in Rome lately and seeing all these Vespas got Hubs and I talking and wondering about your Vespa Vagabond and looking forward to reading the full story. Hoping there’s a book in the works. ;-)
May 13th, 2012 @ 5:11 pm
Love the profile pic… hell, love them all! Thank you.
May 14th, 2012 @ 9:58 am
Wondering who I can impress with my newfound knowledge!
May 15th, 2012 @ 2:17 pm
Ever seen a chicken testicle? Pretty impressive since they’re not visible outwardly.
May 16th, 2012 @ 8:40 am
I’m an Aries too and have always found the curvature of rams’ horns facinating and beautiful…nice pics!
May 16th, 2012 @ 3:53 pm
HA-HA-HA! Shreve – that was hilarious – especially with the pictures.
May 23rd, 2012 @ 7:09 pm
I laughed so hard — haven’t done that in a while- so thank you!
May 29th, 2012 @ 12:08 pm
Just about had water come out my nose I laughed so hard…..That was hilarious and very true. I used to have a ewe and ram (Chico and DL ) they did seem excessively big for such a small animal.
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