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Sheep are susceptible to their own brain wasting disease called scrapie, but this disease has never been shown to be transmissible to humans.
Sheep and deer ticks can transmit Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis, and seabird ticks can carry psittacosis.
Anyway their latest caper is to offer to purchase LFA Sheep Quota from any producer willing to sell it.
But it's late afternoon along a desolate strip of Interstate 15 near Sheep Mountain, above which a pale half-moon is on the rise.
The team compensated by driving several hours north to Sheep Mountain, near Glenallen, on the weekends to train.
Sheep graze, rabbits burrow, the young were out, you will see a giant triangular box and nearby another magic dewpond.
For example, California's Sheep Mountain Wilderness, created in 1984, includes a bridge now used for bungee jumping.
The Kerry Blackface Sheep Breeders Association will celebrate its golden jubilee in some style next year.
Mountain sheep were everywhere, some sleeping by the road, some foraging, bells ringing from their necks as they moved.
Sheep once again graze the surrounding hillside and shiny new tractors work the fields near the southern coast.
I took the remote control and found a nature channel, where bighorn sheep collided against each other in alpine meadows.
Sheep and cattle, introduced by homesteaders, munched the grasses that fueled periodic fires.
Sheep farmers have been struggling really hard and we do not need a botch-up of this sort to affect the sales we have got at the moment.
Sheep eyed us all the way, lapwing cried, a skylark ascended to the clouds and an electronic bleep made Lesley check her camera.
The Aoudad, also known as the Barbary Sheep, is a goat-antelope found in the rocky mountains of North Africa.
See the Black Sheep draymen sharing a ribald joke as they lower a barrel down the drop, there it is.
Sheep remind people of such qualities as timidity, docility and gentleness in Chinese as well as Western culture.
Sheep are in these fields and, unfortunately, last week one aborted with the loss of two lambs.
Sheep wandered in and out like slightly dotty long-term guests who haven't noticed that their hosts have left.
Sheep frighten easily when chased causing them to possibly run into nearby rivers, sheughs or undergrowth.
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Sheep heads, rams' testicles, udders and jelly from the feet were all prepared for storage.
Nine burros, 109 beagles, 10 sheep, and 31 albino rats were put in cages and set to face the dirty bomb.
Sheep were kept for their wool and meat, cows for their milk, sinews and hides.
Sheep and lambs usually spend most of their lives outdoors, and generally get to eat a relatively natural and unadulterated diet.
Sheep and goats provide common meals, while beef is reserved for special occasions.
Sheep were torpid, and even with binoculars, there wasn't a walker moving anywhere.
Sheep probably had more variety in the colour of their fleeces and nearly all would have had horns.
Fresh after Camilla and the cuddly Roo in a blanket, here's Chaz and the acrobatic sheep.
The Sheep is said to be one of the most creative of the twelve Chinese astrological signs.
Sheep graze, and cows gaze, over a bucolic, rustic world that their forebearers would recognize at once.
Sheep have a thick woolly coat, usually live in groups as flocks, and are known for their timidity.
Sheep and goats were probably introduced to Britain during the Neolithic period with other domestic livestock.
Sheep are generally timid and tend to flock together, although they do not compete for rank.
Sheep have been attacked by marauding dogs in the Bushfield and Davros area in recent times.
The soils are poor and calcareous, creating grazing land for both sheep and cattle.
The river is fed from many gills cutting through woodland and predominantly sheep farmsteads.
During medieval times, much of the upper dale was sheep country belonging to Middleham Castle and Jervaulx Abbey.
The monasteries helped develop vast sheep farms and the founding of drove roads, which can still be seen and walked today.
When the monasteries were dissolved in 1539, and wool prices fell, many tenant farmers took to cattle and sheep rearing.
Limestone is also found in the region, at the Cotswolds, Quantock Hills and Mendip Hills, where they support sheep farming.
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In 2007, a hundred local sheep farmers gathered at Kerry airport to protest the eagles' arrival.
Herds of cattle and domestic sheep can be seen apparently roaming free on the moor.
Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep or swine.
It feeds on a wide variety of carrion including sheep carcasses and dead game birds.
In common with many of the new highland lairds, Colonel Gordon expelled most of the inhabitants to make way for sheep farming.
They cultivated small patches of land, kept sheep and cattle, traded with foreign merchants, and occasionally fought.
The sighting and video footage of the alleged big cat coincided with a spree of sheep killings in the same area.
The area consists of high wet moorlands chiefly used for sheep grazing and forestry plantation.
The song was originally sung by away fans poking fun at an Aberdeen fan set on fire on a train while wearing a homemade sheep costume.
A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.
A sheep that's been hanging on deck, curing in the seaspray, is roasted over an open fire.
For him I must convert one of my sheep or goats to sesterces and slaughter another for his entertainment.
When sheep are shipped as stockers from the ranges, the numbers are such usually as to admit of grading the animals before they are shipped.
He told her that in his childhood he had been a simple shepherd in the Taurida, pasturing other people's sheep and calves.
She has various animals including a flockette of pet sheep that are thankful for her vegaquarian habits.
After a time, fully two miles away, he saw sheep grazing on a thinly verdured slide.
The mountainous areas of Wales are suited to sheep farming and this has led to an association of their meat with the country.
Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw.
At the death of Elizabeth Jenison in 1605, the farm stock inventory included 50 oxen besides cattle, sheep, pigs, horses and corn.
The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
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Epidemiology of abomasal nematodes of sheep in Sweden with particular reference to over-winter survival strategies.
The Middle East served as the source for many animals that could be domesticated, such as sheep, goats and pigs.
They use it topically, they use it as mouthwash, enema and douche and they get some pretty amazing results with a Sheep Sorrel decoction alongside the four herbs.
The Ordovices farmed and kept sheep, and built fortified strongholds and hill forts.
In the 1990s, a statue of a shepherd and sheep was installed in the market square as a memorial to the history of the market site.
In sheep and cattle, it takes about 40 days for an early antral follicle to reach the preovulary stage.
The quality of wool depends on the individual sheep and on the part of the sheep's body from which the wool has been taken.
The common Welsh Mountain sheep are hardy and thrive in the cold and wet conditions of the Welsh highlands.
The Romans probably imported the white breed characteristic of Welsh sheep today.
The sheep at this time would have been much more variable than modern breeds, which have been carefully selected for specific characteristics.
The bones of sheep were found, but there seems to have been little spinning and weaving.
The 10th century Welsh laws of King Hywel Dda allocate pigs to the husband and sheep to the wife.
Sheep scrapie, a similar prion disease, passes from ewes to their lambs.
Sheep have grazed this area on and off for over 1,000 years and we sought the advice of English Nature before expanding the area managed by grazing.
In the summer the pigs were kept in the woods while the wife took and sheep and the children to the highlands.
In the Middle Ages sheep were probably kept mainly for their milk and wool rather than their meat.
The monks were granted extensive lands for sheep grazing and were the pioneers of the woollen industry in Wales.
Sheep are still hovering, uncertain whether to go forward or backward.
The river and its tributaries powered dozens of mills, and sheep in the surrounding grassland supplied fleeces to be made into woollen products.
Stalactite-like structures were common in the Black Sheep pocket, forming knobs and fingers of matrix covered with druzy quartz, fluorite, and galena crystals.
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The site is made up of a group of ruinous drystone roundhouses and enclosures and is thought to have been a sheep farming community.
Sheep are most commonly housed in bedded pens with a manure pack.
In 2004, he founded the Mutton Renaissance Campaign, which aims to support British sheep farmers and make mutton more attractive to Britons.
The Dark is based on Simon Maginn's 1994 novel, Sheep, and is designed to provoke memories of classic supernatural chillers set in rural settings such as The Wicker Man.
The drovers brought back gorse seed, which they sowed to provide food for their sheep.
Some hill sheep breeds, such as Scottish Blackface and the Lonk, thrive on the austere conditions of heather moors.
Eurogamers like games about agriculture, 14th-century economic principles, and sheep.
When one decides to raise sheep, he accepts the fact that coyotes come with the territory.
And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?
Sheep in 1988 were blasted against a reflecting plate, ouch!
Much of Wales is rural countryside and sheep are a very common feature in the landscape throughout the country.
Initially, sheep were bred for their milk and fleeces, rather than their meat.
By the 13th century, sheep farming in Wales had become a major industry and source of income, largely from wool, much of which was exported.
Large flocks of sheep were owned by Cistercian abbeys and monasteries, such as those at Strata Florida, Margam, Basingwerk and Tintern.
Glamorganshire mountain sheep wandered over the countryside from early times, some being horned and others being polled.
The breed in the valleys had been improved, principally by sheep from Shropshire.
With the willing but wholly inept assistance of Mark the Squaddie, with infinite effort, the little bleeders were successfully returned to Stalag Sheep.
At the moment the pub is also serving a range of Daleside beers brewed in Harrogate, including Old Leg Over and Greengrass Old Rogue Ale and Black Sheep best bitter.
The win in the club competition was part of a treble celebration for the Southsiders as Tereasa Linsbod collected the national prize for Sheep stock-judging.
To meet these Kyoto targets, the New Zealand government has proposed a flatulence tax on farmers of sheep, cows, deer and goats.
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The western region of the Irish Texel Sheep Society will hold their annual sale of Texel rams and ewes in Ballinrobe Mart on Friday 6th September.
A Merino ram from the Merryville Stud at Boorowa, in New South Wales, has attracted the top price at this year's Australian Sheep and Wool Show sale.
The Welsh Black Cattle and Jacob Sheep all graze freely with their young, and the Oxford Sandy and Black Pigs are also free-range, with pig arks for shelter.
Sheep and goats are ruminants and are genomically similar to cows.
Sheep made their way into the barn, goats maaed to one another.
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
The activities of sheep farming start with growing grass on the meadows, buying hay from external sources and stacking them.
During the Middle Ages, sheep farming for the wool trade came to dominate the economy.
Traditional breeds include Exmoor Horn, Cheviot and Whiteface Dartmoor and Greyface Dartmoor sheep.
The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep.
The Welsh Mountain sheep is usually white with a white face with no wool on forehead or cheek and white legs with no wool below the joint.
The Welsh Mountain sheep is well suited to the harsh environment in which it lives.
Most flocks are descended from sheep that have grazed the same mountains for generations.
There are stories of marauding sheep raiding dustbins in Blaenau Ffestiniog and of others rolling across cattle grids to access better pastures.
There are a number of varieties of Welsh Mountain sheep, named for their locality of origin or their appearance.
Many flocks of white Welsh Mountains contain one or two black sheep, but these sheep are now also bred as a consistent black variety.
The fleece of the Welsh Mountain sheep varies considerably across the range of varieties.
Estimates of livestock included 17,810 horses, 92,386 cattle, 157,973 sheep and 31,673 pigs.
Camels, sheep, goats, and cows may be offered as sacrifice during the three days of Eid.
For centuries, livestock such as sheep and cattle grazed on the highly fertile salt marsh land.
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Other terrestrial animals include wolverines, moose, Dall sheep, ermines, and Arctic ground squirrels.
English vaccine was occasionally made in sheep during World War I but from 1946 only sheep were used.
The island has also long been used for grazing flocks of indigenous Sardinian sheep.
The island produced sheep, honey, resin and wax, and exported many slaves, not well considered because of their fierce and rebellious character.
This sport possibly evolved from the shepherd's need to occasionally get over an open area in the hills as they were tending their sheep.
No, your freedom of the city doesn't allow you to ignore traffic fines or drive sheep through rush-hour traffic.
They brought domesticated animals, such as chickens, rabbits, cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs and built houses and established villages.
The main industries on the island are crofting and sheep farming, where unique North Ronaldsay sheep are mostly farmed collectively.
Blade shearers could shear, crutch, mules or dag sheep anywhere they were needed.
The largest industry is tourism, but the island also has a strong agricultural heritage, including sheep and dairy farming and arable crops.
Europeans brought cattle, horses, and sheep to the New World, and from the New World Europeans received tobacco, potatoes and maize.
Polderisation and occasional flooding have created salt marsh meadows that were found to be ideally suited to grazing sheep.
Here the same four kinds are mentioned... These are sheep, goats, camels and oxen.
Like a small farm, the lighthouse compound had its chattering of chicks, pace of donkeys, troop of horses, and fold of sheep.
Farming, and in particular sheep farming, has been the major industry in the region since Roman times.
The term is used to describe all members of the family Bovidae that do not fall under the category of sheep, cattle, or goats.
As bears reclaim parts of their range, they may eat livestock as sheep and goat are relatively easy for a bear to kill.
In Croatia, wolves kill more dogs than sheep, and wolves in Russia appear to limit stray dog populations.
These alkaloids protect grass plants from herbivory, but several endophyte alkaloids can poison grazing animals, such as cattle and sheep.
Then, they entered the cave of the Cyclops Polyphemus on the underbellies of sheep, escaping by blinding him with a wooden stake.
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Attempts to make profits from the park in the late 18th century included leasing it for grazing, growing wheat, and keeping sheep.
The strength of the NAO is also a determinant in the population fluctuations of the intensively studied Soay sheep.
Jacob the patriarch, by force of imagination, made peckled lambs, laying peckled rods before his sheep.
When AVP was perfused into punctate regions in the brain of the sheep or rabbit, the pyrogen-induced fever was suppressed.
Dorset has a number of limestone ridges which are mostly covered in either arable fields or calcareous grassland supporting sheep.
Wool from mammals including sheep, goats and alpacas has been used for centuries for clothing.
A sheep in its first year is called a lamb, and its meat is also called lamb.
Most farms are managed so sheep can graze pastures, sometimes under the control of a shepherd or sheep dog.
The major sources of income for a farm will come from the sale of lambs and the shearing of sheep for their wool.
In the United States, inventory data on sheep began in 1867, when 45 million head of sheep were counted in the United States.
The numbers of sheep peaked in 1884 at 51 million head, and then declined over time to almost 6 million head.
Other species used in commercial dairy farming include goats, sheep, and camels.
The breed most closely associated with the area is the tough Herdwick, with Rough Fell and Swaledale sheep also common.
Changes in slaughter age and animal size are possibly evidence for sheep being kept for their wool at Corded Ware sites in this region.
Isolated fjords in this harsh land offered sufficient grazing to support cattle and sheep, though the climate was too cold for cereal crops.
These foods include smoked and salted lamb, singed sheep heads, dried fish, smoked and pickled salmon, and cured shark.
Traditionally, the Sami have plied a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping and sheep herding.
Icelandic uses similar words for many of the same colour variations in Icelandic sheep.
One myth was that it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere.
Prey animals, sheep, goats, pigs and cattle, were progressively domesticated early in the history of agriculture.
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Widely agreed types of livestock include cattle for beef and dairy, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry.
By the time of early civilisations such as ancient Egypt, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs were being raised on farms.
These sheep were exported widely and have contributed to numerous modern breeds.
Similar ranching systems have been used for sheep, deer, ostrich, emu, llama and alpaca.
Other animals used to a lesser extent for this purpose include sheep, goats, camels, buffaloes, yaks, reindeer, horses and donkeys.
This meat generally is more tender than that from older sheep and appears more often on tables in some Western countries.
It was dominated by animal husbandry of sheep, cattle, pigs and goats, but there was also hunting and fishing.
Not long afterwards, Admiral Joris van Spilbergen reported catching penguins and sheep on Robben Island.
During this period they established friendly relations with the locals, who sold them sheep, cattle, and vegetables.
The album's lyrics described different classes of society as dogs, pigs, and sheep.
In places such as Argentina, New Mexico and California, the indigenous people learned horsemanship, cattle raising, and sheep herding.
Otherwise, both horned and poll sheep continue to be bred from an inner stud.
Goat, sheep, and camel husbandry is widespread elsewhere throughout the rest of the Peninsula.
The sheep was killed and the car written off, and in the aftermath of this event the informal race became known as the Mutton Grand Prix.
His anatomic knowledge of humans was defective because it was based on dissection of animals, mainly apes, sheep, goats and pigs.
In Libya and Algeria, from at least 7000 BC, there was pastoralism, herding of sheep and goats, large settlements and pottery.
Other domestic animals of Iran include Asian water buffaloes, camels, cattle, donkeys, goats, horses, and the sheep.
In late 2006, Iranian scientists successfully cloned a sheep by somatic cell nuclear transfer, at the Royan Research Center in Tehran.
Today, the main economic activities are fishing, natural gas and oil extraction, sheep farming, and ecotourism.
Texas is a major cattle and sheep raising area, as well as the nation's largest producer of cotton.
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In addition to beef cattle, dairy cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, domestic fowl, and bees are raised.
Although early writers compared llamas to sheep, their similarity to the camel was soon recognized.
Using llamas as livestock guards in North America began in the early 1980s, and some sheep producers have used llamas successfully since then.
Some llamas appear to bond more quickly to sheep or goats if they are introduced just prior to lambing.
Faroese domestic breed include Faroe pony, Faroe cow, Faroe sheep, Faroese goose and Faroese duck.
The Indians described the men's swords and how they killed sheep with them.
The men did not eat human flesh, but rather sheep, lamb, duck, pigeons, and deer, and cooked the meat.
Aco and Quilco specialise in ceramics and San Agustin de Cajas in hats of sheep wool.
Two breeds of livestock, the Santa Cruz sheep and the San Clemente Island goat originate from here.
Features such as dry stone walls, for example, are there as a result of sheep farming.
Oregon farmers and ranchers also produce cattle, sheep, dairy products, eggs and poultry.
The stuffed carcass of Dolly the sheep is now on display in the National Museum of Scotland.
Their higher nutrient levels, however, allow them to support productive pasture, and large numbers of sheep are grazed in these regions.
Paradoxically, sheep can both cause and solve the spread of invasive plant species.
Tiree was famed in later times for its oats and barley, while smaller, uninhabited islands were used to keep sheep.
Thousands of sheep, include the native Herdwicks which graze on the fellsides across the district, were destroyed.
They farmed grain and millet as their cereal crops, grew flax, and raised oxen, pigs, sheep and horses.
Whilst having good color sensitivity, it is not as good as humans or sheep.
Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep.
Cistercian labour transformed southern Scotland into one of northern Europe's main source of sheep wool.
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Many other specific terms for the various life stages of sheep exist, generally related to lambing, shearing, and age.
In total, over 20,000 head of livestock, sheep, and goats were driven off and sold at Fort Augustus, where the soldiers split the profits.
In both ancient and modern religious ritual, sheep are used as sacrificial animals.
Domestic sheep are relatively small ruminants, usually with a crimped hair called wool and often with horns forming a lateral spiral.
The Highland Clearances and the end of the township system followed changes in land ownership and tenancy and the replacement of cattle by sheep.
A few primitive breeds of sheep retain some of the characteristics of their wild cousins, such as short tails.
Another trait unique to domestic sheep as compared to wild ovines is their wide variation in color.
Wild sheep are largely variations of brown hues, and variation within species is extremely limited.
Colors of domestic sheep range from pure white to dark chocolate brown, and even spotted or piebald.
Selection for easily dyeable white fleeces began early in sheep domestication, and as white wool is a dominant trait it spread quickly.
However, colored sheep do appear in many modern breeds, and may even appear as a recessive trait in white flocks.
Violence erupted, starting on the Isle of Skye, when Highland landlords cleared their lands for sheep and deer parks.
Whereas earlier land had been enclosed in order to make it available for sheep farming, by 1650 the steep rise in wool prices had come to an end.
The front teeth are then gradually lost as sheep age, making it harder for them to feed and hindering the health and productivity of the animal.
Visual differences between sheep and goats include the beard of goats and divided upper lip of sheep.
Most of these were derived from Merino sheep, and the breed continues to dominate the world sheep industry.
Long wool breeds are the largest of sheep, with long wool and a slow rate of growth.
Long wool sheep are most valued for crossbreeding to improve the attributes of other sheep types.
The main economic activities include sheep farming, quarrying, finance and tourism.
Coarse or carpet wool sheep are those with a medium to long length wool of characteristic coarseness.
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These sheep produce a higher quantity of milk and have slightly longer lactation curves.
A last group of sheep breeds is that of fur or hair sheep, which do not grow wool at all.
Hair sheep are similar to the early domesticated sheep kept before woolly breeds were developed, and are raised for meat and pelts.
Some modern breeds of hair sheep, such as the Dorper, result from crosses between wool and hair breeds.
For meat and hide producers, hair sheep are cheaper to keep, as they do not need shearing.
The practice of folding sheep was general, and the purchase of hurdles was a regular charge in the shepherd's account.
With the modern rise of corporate agribusiness and the decline of localized family farms, many breeds of sheep are in danger of extinction.
Both sheep and goats use their lips and tongues to select parts of the plant that are easier to digest or higher in nutrition.
When sheep graze, vegetation is chewed into a mass called a bolus, which is then passed into the rumen, via the reticulum.
Other than forage, the other staple feed for sheep is hay, often during the winter months.
Mismothering may occur among sheep when a lamb has been separated from the flock and returned.
Ideal pasture for sheep is not lawnlike grass, but an array of grasses, legumes and forbs.
Types of land where sheep are raised vary widely, from pastures that are seeded and improved intentionally to rough, native lands.
With a much narrower face, sheep crop plants very close to the ground and can overgraze a pasture much faster than cattle.
By disturbing the natural state of pasture, sheep and other livestock can pave the way for invasive plants.
During flocking, sheep have a strong tendency to follow and a leader may simply be the first individual to move.
Being a prey species, the primary defense mechanism of sheep is to flee from danger when their flight zone is entered.
Cornered sheep may charge and butt, or threaten by hoof stamping and adopting an aggressive posture.
In regions where sheep have no natural predators, none of the native breeds of sheep exhibit a strong flocking behavior.
Farmers exploit flocking behavior to keep sheep together on unfenced pastures such as hill farming, and to move them more easily.
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Those who are moving sheep may exploit this behavior by leading sheep with buckets of feed.
Dominant animals are inclined to be more aggressive with other sheep, and usually feed first at troughs.
If worked with patiently, sheep may learn their names and many sheep are trained to be led by halter for showing and other purposes.
The bleats of individual sheep are distinctive, enabling the ewe and her lambs to recognize each other's vocalizations.
A variety of bleats may be heard, depending on sheep age and circumstances.
Sight is a vital part of sheep communication, and when grazing, they maintain visual contact with each other.
Each sheep lifts its head upwards to check the position of other sheep in the flock.
This constant monitoring is probably what keeps the sheep in a flock as they move along grazing.
Cattle, pigs, sheep and goats were kept, as well as horses, dogs and geese.
In feral sheep, rams may fight during the rut to determine which individuals may mate with ewes.
After mating, sheep have a gestation period of about five months, and normal labor takes one to three hours.
Ear tags with numbers are attached, or ear marks are applied, for ease of later identification of sheep.
However, some signs of ill health are obvious, with sick sheep eating little, vocalizing excessively, and being generally listless.
Throughout history, much of the money and labor of sheep husbandry has aimed to prevent sheep ailments.
Farming is mostly concerned with the raising of Shetland sheep, known for their unusually fine wool.
This can also mean maintaining a closed flock, and quarantining new sheep for a month.
Two fundamental preventive programs are maintaining good nutrition and reducing stress in the sheep.
Common forms of preventive medication for sheep are vaccinations and treatments for parasites.
Both external and internal parasites are the most prevalent malady in sheep, and are either fatal, or reduce the productivity of flocks.
Afterwards, sheep may be moved to a new pasture to avoid ingesting the same parasites.
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External parasites may be controlled through the use of backliners, sprays or immersive sheep dips.
Several breeds of livestock have originated in the Southern Uplands, including Galloway cattle, Ayrshire dairy cattle and Cheviot sheep.
More seriously, the organisms that can cause spontaneous enzootic abortion in sheep are easily transmitted to pregnant women.
During the 2001 FMD pandemic in the UK, hundreds of sheep were culled and some rare British breeds were at risk of extinction due to this.
Other than parasites and disease, predation is a threat to sheep and the profitability of sheep raising.
Even if sheep survive an attack, they may die from their injuries or simply from panic.
In the United States, for instance, over one third of sheep deaths in 2004 were caused by predation.
In contrast, other nations are virtually devoid of sheep predators, particularly islands known for extensive sheep husbandry.
Donkeys and guard llamas have been used since the 1980s in sheep operations, using the same basic principle as livestock guardian dogs.
Local Gower salt marsh lamb is produced from sheep which are raised in the salt marshes of the Loughor estuary.
Other countries such as New Zealand have smaller flocks but retain a large international economic impact due to their export of sheep products.
Much of Anglesey is used for relatively intensive cattle and sheep farming.
Virtually the entire land area of the islands is used as pasture for sheep.
In the later Iron Age, an apparent shift is visible, revealing a change in dominance from cattle rearing to that of sheep.
My friends dismissed him as a Kerry sheep thief and a bog Irish gombeen man.
Bell also built the forerunner to the iron lung and experimented with breeding sheep.
This became the name for sheep meat in English, while the Old English word sceap was kept for the live animal.
After reaching its heights during the First World War, the decline in world wool prices affected sheep farming in Argentina.
Yogurts, especially some forms of strained yogurt, may also be made from sheep milk.
In particular, the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh, Scotland used sheep for genetics research that produced groundbreaking results.
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Today, pickled sheep and soiled beds threaten to make barbarians of us all.
Skilled sheep shearers can get the wool off a ewe in two shakes of a lamb's tail.
In the English language, to call someone a sheep or ovine may allude that they are timid and easily led.
Counting sheep is popularly said to be an aid to sleep, and some ancient systems of counting sheep persist today.
To call an individual a black sheep implies that they are an odd or disreputable member of a group.
These black sheep were considered undesirable by shepherds, as black wool is not as commercially viable as white wool.
In Madagascar, sheep were not eaten as they were believed to be incarnations of the souls of ancestors.
In Mongolia, shagai are an ancient form of dice made from the cuboid bones of sheep that are often used for fortunetelling purposes.
By volume, most of the meat produced is from domestic fowl, with pork coming in second, followed by beef, goat and sheep.
An example is the Cumbrian term sturdy for diseased sheep that walk in circles, derived from etourdi meaning giddy.
Cattle, sheep, pig rearing and some horse breeding are the main types of husbandry practiced.
Livestock production also includes the pig breeds Landrace, Duroc and Yorkshire and many breeds of sheep and cattle.
For example, in sheep, it may be caused by crowding through doors, or being chased by dogs.
Domesticated animals include the legendary Arabian horse, Arabian camel, sheep, goats, cows, donkeys, chickens etc.
Her most significant role to date had been as a sheep in the school nativity play.
Many festivals are held at these sites each year, such as the annual sheep shearing festival at the Gore Estate.
Ranches of the United States and sheep stations and cattle stations of Australia are seen by some as modern variations.
After the appointed time, Yinxi again demonstrates determination and perfect trust, sending out a black sheep to market as the agreed sign.
Hunters of wild goats and sheep were knowledgeable about herd mobility and the needs of the animals.
The buying and selling of sheep and wool were no longer centred on the great Abbeys, being handled locally by the new landowners and tenants.

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