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[lifleifthrasir]

[12:24pm]

Good afternoon. I just retrieved my first items from Retrospec, and they seem to be half sprouted seeds. They're the largest ones I've ever seen, about the size of my palm and very heavy.

I will be planting them with the family gardener's help, but any advice in general would be appreciated.

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[1:49pm]

My apologies. I no longer need help with gardening, but I very urgently require advice on the proper care of farm animals. The seeds I planted earlier somehow sprouted four fully grown sheep within a few seconds, and I've no idea how to look after them now that they're in the apartment.

Comments

[heiroglyphs]

You planted sheep???

[lifleifthrasir]

I suppose I did. But I'm not sure how I managed it.

[heiroglyphs]

Do they have like
Vines or petals or something on them?
Like are they really plants or real flesh and blood sheep?

[nachetanya]

I volunteer! Obviously that's not my specialty but I do know a lot about a wide variety of animals and know someone who is an almost-veterinarian too!

[lifleifthrasir]

I am grateful to you as ever, Natalia.

Perhaps, to start, you could tell me how to stop them from chewing up the furniture...

[compendiem]

How large is your apartment...

[ More importantly, why did you bring them inside? ]

Sheep would do best in a pasture with a small shed. Churchill Downs might provide temporary housing until you find a better solution.

[lifleifthrasir]

It is very large and spacious, and the backyard is the same. If it isn't large enough for their needs, I suppose I can see to expanding it even more.

[aintjustaweapon]

Plant sheep?
You gotta take a picture of those and let us see!

[lifleifthrasir]

[Attached image!]

They are very adorable.

[ascatic]

They grew into fully matured sheep? Incredible. Simply amazing.

Are they soft?

[lifleifthrasir]

They are indeed very soft. Though it took some time chasing them around the apartment to discover this fact.

YES SHEEP PLANTS

[blind_badass]

I suppose you could always sell the wool for extra money.

[lifleifthrasir]

How could one tell if the wool is good enough quality to be sold?

[odapologist]

For starters, you might want to name and id them.

So you can tell them apart and keep track.

I think the animal shelter may be able to help you... or doing some research online or at the library?

[lifleifthrasir]

Ah, names. I confess I had already started thinking of some when they...bloomed. But what do you mean by IDing them? Must I collar them?

[insantafe]

Alright, this may be a stupid question, considering you just grew sheep from a bunch of seeds. But how can plants, even sheep plants, grow like that when there's no light out?

[ he knows literally nothing about gardening but plants need sun don't they?? ]

[lifleifthrasir]

I've no idea, save for the reply that the seeds might have magical properties that allow them to grow that way. If it's from that other world, then it would not surprise me.

[vitis]

[ well shit ]

well, if that doesn't sound like some horrendous science project gone wrong
they don't got stems? leaves? ... just sheep?

[lifleifthrasir]

Just sheep. The only part of them that can claim to be plant-like is how they grew, but otherwise, looking at them, they could belong in any other flock.

[sunnymerc]

YOU HAVE HONEST TO GOODNESS ACTUAL SHEEP???

[lifleifthrasir]

Yes. They are currently eating my furniture in a fit of panicked hunger, I think, but they are very real.

[livingdeadgirl]

so do they count as animals or vegetables

[lifleifthrasir]

I would count them as animals, myself. If I hadn't witnessed them growing, I would have called them normal sheep like any other.

[sivard]

Don't plants need the sun?

[lifleifthrasir]

I would have answered yes before I was given these seeds. Now I'm not so sure.