{"id":690372,"date":"2021-08-27T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=690372"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:50:25","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-colorfully-dyed-sheep-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-colorfully-dyed-sheep-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Colorfully-Dyed Sheep In Scotland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-colorfully-dyed-sheep-in-scotland%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=690372&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/hecksuperwholesome\/posts\/978034439704737\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows sheep in Scotland with their wool dyed different colors.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7269426\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7269426\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7269426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/240370473_10158792925307362_7520632971456607272_n.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/240370473_10158792925307362_7520632971456607272_n.jpg 616w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/240370473_10158792925307362_7520632971456607272_n-77x120.jpg 77w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/240370473_10158792925307362_7520632971456607272_n-620x966-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/240370473_10158792925307362_7520632971456607272_n-768x1196-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/240370473_10158792925307362_7520632971456607272_n-1536x2393-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/240370473_10158792925307362_7520632971456607272_n-2048x3191-1-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7269426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image has been digitally altered to make the sheep\u2019s wool colorful. The original photo shows white-wooled sheep in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featured in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/hecksuperwholesome\/posts\/978034439704737\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">viral picture<\/a> is a flock of sheep, each of which appears to have its wool dyed a bright color. Text inside the image reads, \u201cFreshly dyed sheep run in view of the highway near Bathgate, Scotland. This sheep farmer has been dying his sheep with non-toxic dye since 2007 to make people smile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo has been digitally edited to change the coloring of the sheep\u2019s wool, and the pictured flock was not located anywhere in the U.K, a reverse image search revealed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Agricultural Research Service website displays an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/oc\/images\/photos\/apr12\/k4166-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unaltered version<\/a>, credited to photographer Keith Weller, that depicts the sheep with non-dyed wool.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flock_of_sheep.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original photo<\/a> can also be found on Wikimedia Commons, where it is attributed to Weller and the description <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flock_of_sheep.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">states<\/a>, \u201cThese particular sheep belong to a research flock at the US Sheep Experiment Station near Dubois, Idaho, USA.\u201d&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/02\/04\/fact-check-image-uk-document-government-ministers-destroy-businesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A UK Cabinet Office Document Telling Government Ministers How To Destroy Businesses?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not unheard for a farmer to dye their sheep\u2019s wool. One farmer in England\u2019s Lake District region colored his sheep bright orange in 2016 to make it harder for people to steal them, BBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-37462464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. A flock in West Lothian, Scotland, was dyed red by its owner for entertainment purposes in 2007, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/edinburgh_and_east\/6521149.stm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC News<\/a>. In both cases, the colored sheep attracted interest from the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows sheep in Scotland with their wool dyed different colors. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}