UPI – A British sheep farmer has discovered an unexpected solution for reducing the aggression of her rams: Axe body spray.
Sam Bryce, who tends to sheep on the Norfolk-Suffolk border in England, shared that fellow farmers in the Facebook group ‘Ladies Who Lamb’ informed her about the Africa variety of the body spray.
Known as Lynx in Britain and other regions where the Axe brand isn’t available, this particular scent reportedly masks the hormones responsible for rams’ aggressive behaviour towards each other.
According to Bryce, since implementing the use of the heavily-perfumed body spray on her animals, there has been a noticeable decrease in confrontations. She remarked, “There’s no argy-bargy, no rowing.”
She said using body spray to calm rams is a growing practice. “There are several of us doing it right across the country and I think even the world now,” Bryce told a news agency.
Some fellow sheep farmers said the body spray is good for more than just keeping rams calm – Suffolk shepherdess Caitlin Jenkins said she uses the same variety to convince mother sheep to adopt abandoned lambs.
She said ewes identify their babies by smell, and using the body spray confuses them into thinking the lambs belong to them.
“I always go for Lynx Africa because it has a very distinctive strong smell,” she said. “The ones that don’t smell as strong have less chance of working.”
