“Do shepherds break the legs of their sheep? Maybe you’ve heard that when a sheep continually wanders, a shepherd will have to break one of its legs and then carry it on his shoulders. Here’s what the editor of Sheep! Magazine said in 2006:
‘It is not true that any shepherds break a lamb’s leg on purpose. What they sometimes do in certain sheep-raising nations is to ‘brake’ a leg. This means they attach a clog or weight to the animal’s leg, which keeps certain ‘rogue’ sheep from getting too far from the shepherd until they learn their names, and not to be afraid of the shepherd.'”
