Comments on: Getting started with Soay sheep: Mineral http://priscilla.saltmarshranch.com/2008/10/09/soay-sheep-getting-started-mineral/ The joys of keeping small sheep in southern Oregon Wed, 11 May 2011 21:08:24 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: priscilla http://priscilla.saltmarshranch.com/2008/10/09/soay-sheep-getting-started-mineral/comment-page-1/#comment-1489 priscilla Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:53:29 +0000 http://priscilla.saltmarshranch.com/2008/10/09/soay-sheep-getting-started-mineral/#comment-1489 Jim - Your suggestion has great merit. Any chance you could provide us with a to-scale sketch or, better yet, exercise those old Boy Scouts skills and send us a prototype -- disaseembled with instructions just in time for Christmas would be nice. 'Til then, keeping reading those heavy books so I can concentrate on my sheep detective story. Thanks, Priscilla Jim – Your suggestion has great merit. Any chance you could provide us with a to-scale sketch or, better yet, exercise those old Boy Scouts skills and send us a prototype — disaseembled with instructions just in time for Christmas would be nice. ‘Til then, keeping reading those heavy books so I can concentrate on my sheep detective story. Thanks, Priscilla

]]> By: Jim Peterson http://priscilla.saltmarshranch.com/2008/10/09/soay-sheep-getting-started-mineral/comment-page-1/#comment-1486 Jim Peterson Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:46:31 +0000 http://priscilla.saltmarshranch.com/2008/10/09/soay-sheep-getting-started-mineral/#comment-1486 There has to be a better way -- this solution doesn't look good enough by way of either efficiency or aesthetics. Or perhaps it's just that I have recently finished Walter Isaacson's biography of Albert Einstein, who had a unique gift for visualizing his solutions and working away until he either teased or tortured reality to fit the elegance of his vision. And I know your chief shepherd has the same gift. What of something like a very large bird feeder -- so it would have a roof / lid to keep off the weather -- and with "walls" of large-mesh screens so the mineral would not be exposed to the non-eating end of the Soay, except as the portions would fall out within licking range. Such a structure could be anchored as you have it or mounted on a wall or panel. Cheers -- Jim There has to be a better way — this solution doesn’t look good enough by way of either efficiency or aesthetics. Or perhaps it’s just that I have recently finished Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein, who had a unique gift for visualizing his solutions and working away until he either teased or tortured reality to fit the elegance of his vision.

And I know your chief shepherd has the same gift.

What of something like a very large bird feeder — so it would have a roof / lid to keep off the weather — and with “walls” of large-mesh screens so the mineral would not be exposed to the non-eating end of the Soay, except as the portions would fall out within licking range. Such a structure could be anchored as you have it or mounted on a wall or panel.

Cheers —

Jim

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