1.   And please keep your butties to yourself and let the sheep eat grass as nature intended.

2.   But when sheep elsewhere in the world ate the legume, they died.

3.   The small-business shepherds replied that sheep ate forbs and anything that grew, while the cattle were finicky eaters of bunch grasses.

4.   These sheep could eat a toxic legume with impunity, Dewhirst said.

5.   They also eat the same food as sheep, but always let the sheep eat first.

6.   Unlike cattle, sheep will eat leafy spurge, which tends to crowd out other grasses.