Ha! Yes, it all does sound very plausible, and my father, an old sheep rancher always enjoyed reading things written about this, even when he found some of it hard to believe. And believe me, the specifics of agriculture vary a lot from culture to culture and place to place.
It was the seemingly rhetorical question of whether any of us had actually raised sheep that tickled me, since you probably didn't think that anyone might say, "well, as a matter of fact I have -- thousands of them!" :-)
Here I am, meticulously not flagging you in 7837 to avoid any appearance of presuming that you do not know how to raise sheep, and still falling short of your approval. No wonder we are refused communion.