Before...AND AFTER!!! Our sheep are ready for the season! Have you ever seen a sheep get sheared? Join us TODAY, April 15th at your Birmingham Zoo for FARM DAY! Celebrate Alabama’s farming heritage and learn about how we care for our farm animals and conserve our local, native wildlife. Guests can create rural-themed arts and crafts, experience a sheep shearing by our Animal Care Professionals, meet local agricultural groups in the Junior League of Birmingham Hugh Kaul Children’s Zoo with intera

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As spring arrives, bighorn sheep 🐑 resume their diet of grasses and clover. (Eating woodier plants like sage and willow in the winter). ☘️ They are ruminants with a 4-part stomach that allows them to eat a lot, then retreat to a cliff, safe from predators, to rechew and digest. They absorb moisture during this digestive process, so they can go without water for long periods of time. / 🎬 @montanamaaike 🙏 | The Ranch at Rock Creek