When a lamb is born and its mother dies or the mother is bereft of offspring there. The mother accepts the lamb as hers because of the smell of the phleas, the lamb's phleas. So if a lamb's dead and we're trying to adopt another one on, pretty crude, it's not the prettiest thing,. But we couldn't pull off the skin of the lamb and we'd make it into a waste go. Then we cut holes and put the legs of the lamb that's to be adopted on through that waste go to the old lamb's skin and we put it with the mother. And then the lamb will be passing her milk and will smell like
James Rebanks's family has raised sheep in the same small English village for at least four centuries. There are records of people with his same last name going back a few hundred more. Even his sheep are rooted in place: their DNA is from Viking times. It's enough to make anyone feel insignificant--and according to Rebanks, that's a wonderful thing. Listen as the author of The Shepherd's Life speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the deep pleasures and humbling privilege of being a sheep farmer.