#this is a transparent excuse to infodump about sheep

[yourcreepyneighborhoodelftwink]

BTW when I designed BEN's lamb fursona, I picked a specific sheep breed, not just Generic White Sheep, he's a Dorset Horn sheep, just a very young ram.

They're a dual purpose breed for wool and meat, and both the rams and ewes have horns, with the ewes having a crescent moon shaped horn. And they're also unique among English breeds with their ability to lamb at any time of year, as opposed to being limited to breeding in the fall and lamb in the early spring. They're not very popular as a milk breed, BUT usually have no trouble producing enough milk for their lambs, and are EXCELLENT mothers. They're very calm and docile, and a "heavy" breed (meaning not very flighty compared to other sheep breeds). The only exception is that rams are unpredictable, and should be approached with caution, but that's true of ALL sheep.

Seemed very fitting for BEN, a lamb from a breed so perfect for farmers that it's recommended as a homesteading beginner friendly breed, known as an excellent mother (fits with my hc that BEN's always wanted to be a mother, and that helped BEN figure out her weird gender stuff), can be horny pretty much whenever, and rams being unpredictable leads nicely into the "wolf in sheep's clothing" twist I want for them >:3

As a thank you for putting up with my word vomit, here's a reference I used that's HILARIOUS to me of one with the hugest nutsack I've ever seen on an animal