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FARMER SUTRA! ARE GAY RAMS REALLY A PROBLEM THE SHEEP DTRY?

Gay rams show distct bra differenc - a ntroversial study of gay men found almost intil distctns * gay rams sheep *

“Unfortunately, he’ll have to go to the food cha, ” said Dewi Jon, the chief executive of the sheep-breedg pany Innovis, speakg on a Channel 4 documentary, My Gay Dog and Other Animals, which will be broadst on Thursday. The show reports that one 12 sheep is gay.

HOMOSEXUALY IS BLOGIL, SUGGTS GAY SHEEP STUDY

Gay rams are more mon than farmers thought, wh one 12 showg same-sex preferenc – that's acrdg to the head of the UK's largt sheep * gay rams sheep *

Campaigners raised money to send him to a sanctuary stead (although emerged the followg year that he may not be “gay” after all, “judgg by what he was tryg to do the other day wh one of the ws, ” said his new owner) preferenc sheep have been studied by Charl Roselli, a profsor of physlogy and pharmalogy at the Oregon Health & Science Universy, whose work suggts their sexualy is termed by blogy and has said that the rearch – prevly reported by the webse Slate unr the headle “Brokeback Mutton” – may “allow better selectn of rams for breedg and as a nsequence may be enomilly important to the sheep dtry”. A study of gay sheep appears to nfirm the ntroversial suggtn that there is a blogil basis for sexual preference. But gay rams s size was almost intil to that “straight” femal.

The differenc are almost intil to those intified by the nroscientist Simon LeVay his studi of the bras of gay men. Sheep are particularly tertg, he says, bee bis humans, they are the only animal where the mal may naturally exprs exclively gay sexual preferenc.

ALL BIGHORN RAMS THAT MATE WH EW PARTICIPATE GAY URTG & PULATN MOST OF THE YEAR. (GENR SHOWSE, 9-12)

As many as one 10 rams n be gay. But Lark suggts there may also be the fluence of gen at work, at least predisposg the animals to homosexualy. This is bee selective breedg seems to have been rponsible for the high proportn of gay sheep pared wh other animals.

All male bighorn sheep that breed wh female ew also participate homosexual urtg & anal pulatn.

Book excerpt:The mal have been scribed as “homosexual societi. ” Almost all mal participate homosexual urtg and pulatn.

1 12 RAMS ARE GAY AND STG FARMERS, SAYS BREER

Female-body ew live separately om gay male rams and only accept mountg 3 days of the year. Book excerpt:The few mal who do not participate homosexual activy…are intil appearance to other mal but behave que differently. Gay rams are more mon than farmers thought, wh one 12 showg same-sex preferenc – that’s acrdg to the head of the UK’s largt sheep breer.

YEP, THEY'RE GAY

The Channel 4 documentary My gay dog and other animals aired last night (6 June), explorg homosexualy hoehold pets, wild animals and livtock. Rams are known to try to breed wh other mal and femal, but the phenomenon of strictly “gay” sheep is somethg that allegedly n have an effect on the farmg dtry.

Zoologists have known for many years that homosexualy isn't unmon among animals. ) But I was surprised to learn recently that male sheep exhib homosexualy at least as often as humans: roughly 8% of rams turn out to have sex exclively wh other rams.

This ltle piece of fnal ephemera might otherwise have gone unnoticed outsi the rarely tersectg subcultur of gays and shepherds. Mpaign on behalf of gay sheep.

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