Canadian Farmer's Sheep Are Masters of Disguise in Snowy Field

Eric Chaney
Published: November 10,2015

Liezel Kennedy became a bit of an internet sensation over the weekend after she tweeted a photo of a seemingly empty snowy field on her Saskatchewan farm recently, captioned "Could hardly find my sheep this morning!"
There are more than 500 sheep in the photo, but their dirty-brown wool blends in perfectly with the browns, tans and whites of a winter field.

There are more than 500 sheep in this photo, "disguising" themselves as an empty field.
(Courtesy of Pilgram Farms)

Kennedy, who told weather.com that she's been raising sheep for five years, says it's not unusual for the sheep to be hidden behind a hill or a fold in the landscape on her 640-acre farm, "but it's not a regular occurrence for them to blend in THAT well!"It does happen though. After online interest in her original tweet ramped up, Kennedy posted several more photos of her fields in the spring and summer and her sheep are just as invisible, real masters of disguise in all seasons.
Craig Silverman ✔ @CraigSilverman

@pilgrimfarms Hi Liezel, could BuzzFeed Canada use these pics in a post? I’m also wondering if you have any others you could email?

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@CraigSilverman we have the same problem in summer and Spring... pic.twitter.com/FmvcHdapmb

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"In summer we have cross fences to rotate them through the grass but in winter we take those down," Kennedy said. "We check on them twice a day to check for sick animals, feed the guardian dogs, put out salt and mineral, check water, etc."
While the sheep are master's of disguise, Kennedy has other livestock who are masters of escape. Pilgirm Farms stocks, sheep, cattle, horses and goats, and it's the goats you really have to keep an eye on.
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"The goats ... are escape artists and find the tiniest gap in the fence," Kennedy told weather.com. "They always come back though once they've checked out the greener grass on the other side."
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