Farmyard animals. #1

Farmyard animals. #1
In an effort to expand my collection,I decided to include all native animals, not just wild ones, and so I turned my eye to farm animals.

Farm animals are, in their own way, harder to come by than wild animals, as they are rarely going to be lying on the side of the road or roaming the countryside. Also, few farmers are going to appreciate you stalking through their herds looking for sickly animals or trying to acquire the heads of their cattle….

As most animals end their lives in an abattoir, finding their remains is pretty unlikely, so buying the skulls is probably your best bet, however, I have always tried to avoid buying skulls, as I want to keep it a hobby, not business, or trying to find wild sheep, goats and horses  (cows are pretty tough to find, and I still don’t have one)  or trading something you have in exchange for one.

(I’m always willing to trade my spare skulls for more new and exciting ones, if anyone is interested, just drop me a message)

However, there are some places that you can find wild farm animals, and they are generally quite wild and exciting places, like Dartmoor and Wales, Wales being where I found my first sheep skull.

It’s a young male, and I found it in Snowdonia, at the bottom of a ravine whilst on a silver Duke of Edinburgh award expedition  amongst quite a few skeletons, and I’m guessing its quite a common place for sheep to fall. anyway, in that week, I must have seen two dozen sheep skeletons, so if anyone is headed over to Wales then keep an eye out on the hills if you go for a hike.

Next time ill be telling the story of how I nearly added a pig skull to my collection, and how I still have about half the teeth from that skull.