Wethers

Castrated bucks are called wethers and are sold for meat while bucks or rams are used for breeding. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2010)

Ewes sometimes receive an ear notch at docking to identify them quickly from the wethers when sorted down a sorting alley. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2010)

May 18, 2009 at 1:05 am we canz trade wethers? it too dry and hot here. not enuf sno on da hills to melty for da reserv, rese, pond things fur collecting waters. we be in drowt fur abowt tree yeers nao. iz in cali fern knee-a inna bay areeea. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An normally Pookie, da biggen, wuld bii owtsyde enjoyin da kool wethers! ❋ Unknown (2009)

We cannot, as the footman says in the play, recollect the exact nature of the lie which the bell wethers told the flock, but no task is so easy as that of imposing upon a multitude whose eager prejudices have more than half done the business ere the impostor has spoken a word. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We then sorted the ewe lambs from the wether lambs male sheep made into "steers" and marked the wethers with a dob of paint so they'll be easier to distinguish when sorting down a sheep alley when we're ready to sell them. ❋ Gumbo Lily (2008)

Freddy 4-H'er: Little kid who raises and shows livestockWrangler Butt: A Freddy in tightfitting jeansJuicers: Dairy cattlePig Patrol: Officials who weigh swine before a competition to determine weight classWether report: Vital stats like weight and breed on lambs ( "" wethers '') reported to judges and the mediaConcrete cowboy: City slickers in boots and cowboy hats who turn out to watch ❋ Unknown (2008)

Lambs and gimmers and wethers and ewes what do you want with political views? ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Knights of the Garter (whoever they be) were to attend that day in state; and some went in, and some stayed out, and it made me think of the difference betwixt the ewes and the wethers. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

For the ewes will go wherever you lead them; but the wethers will not, having strong opinions, and meaning to abide by them. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

At first your wethers will run with your ewes, and you will only want one shepherd; but as soon as the mob gets up to two or three thousand the wethers should be kept separate; you will then want another shepherd. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It will, however, pay you better to invest nearly all your money in ewes, and to kill your own young stock, than to sink more capital than is absolutely necessary in wethers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Secondly, The diggings in Otago have caused the value of wethers to rise, and as they are now selling at 33s. on the runs of the Otago station (I quote the Lyttelton Times, which may be depended upon), and those runs are only very partially stocked, the supply there must in all probability fall short of the demand. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Some wethers must be included in your purchase, otherwise you will run short of meat, as none of your own breeding will be ready for the knife for a year and a half, to say the least of it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And one man I noticed was of the wethers, to wit the Duke of Norfolk; who stopped outside with the sword of state, like a beadle with a rapping-rod. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

I shouted aloud to cheer him up, for I knew what sheep it was, to wit, the most valiant of all the wethers, who had met me when I came home from London, and been so glad to see me. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Lincolnshire and Leicestershire wethers, which they buy in Smithfield in September and October, when the Lincolnshire and Leicestershire graziers sell off their stock, and are kept here till Christmas, or Candlemas, or thereabouts; and though they are not made at all fatter here than they were when bought in, yet the farmer or butcher finds very good advantage in it, by the difference of the price of mutton between ❋ Unknown (2003)

Muck, however small, has yet others smaller about it, one of which has only ground sufficient to afford pasture for three wethers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The wether [looks] [pissed] [today]. ❋ Gops (2006)

[Denis]: Sirrr I hate the [seating plan] Mr wetheral: [I don’t care] :) ❋ Big Sid (2021)

[Wethering] [feels] [so good]. ❋ ABDL2023 (2023)