Tuesday, November 24, 2009

World's oldest Sheep dies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8376053.stm
A 23 year old Sheep died in Australia from a heat wave. Yes, a sheep lived to twice it's life expectancy, no wonder it's named Lucky. Lucky held the Guinness record since 2007.

She was abandoned by her mother and raised and had 35 of her own offspring. Lucky died on Monday in the farm from a record heartwave of temperatures over 30c.

She was brought into the shed and put in air conditioning but she succumbed to the heat anyways. Lucky had lost all her teeth and had arthritis due to her old age. She was buried under her favourite nectarine tree on the farm.
They've displayed a copy of Guinness World Record certificate on the wall of the town's tourist information centre which supplies postcards, bookmarks as well as wool for sale.


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