Shaboom the sheep's favourite meal consists of animal feed made from nitrogen-based chemicals and other dismantled gun propellants -- one of the more creative uses Albuquerque company TPL is finding for unwanted military munitions.
Shaboom, named after the comic book phrase for an explosion, was the "guinea-sheep" for TPL's experiment with feed made from spent munitions, and found it delicious.
"I referred to Shaboom as the world's second most famous sheep - after Mary had a little lamb. Then after Dolly (the cloned sheep) came along she was downsized. Now she's only third most important," said H.M. "Hap" Stoller, the president and chief executive of TPL.