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  2. Shepherd - Wikipedia

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    Sheep owners complained about the inefficiency of shepherds and the shepherds' fears of getting lost in the bush. [6] Typically sheep were watched by shepherds during the day, and by a hut-keeper during the night. Shepherds took the sheep out to graze before sunrise and returned them to brush-timber yards at sunset.

  3. Sheep - Wikipedia

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    For meat and hide producers, hair sheep are cheaper to keep, as they do not need shearing. [42] Hair sheep are also more resistant to parasites and hot weather. [29] With the modern rise of corporate agribusiness and the decline of localized family farms, many breeds of sheep are in danger of extinction.

  4. Glossary of sheep husbandry - Wikipedia

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    Sheepdog or shepherd dog – a dog used to move and control sheep, often very highly trained. Other types of dog may be used just to guard sheep (see livestock guarding dog), and these are sometimes also called sheepdogs. See also eye dog and huntaway. Sheep – the species, or members of it.

  5. Yan tan tethera - Wikipedia

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    Yan Tan Tethera or yan-tan-tethera is a sheep-counting system traditionally used by shepherds in Northern England and some other parts of Britain. [1] The words are numbers taken from Brythonic Celtic languages such as Cumbric which had died out in most of Northern England by the sixth century, but they were commonly used for sheep counting and counting stitches in knitting until the ...

  6. Herdwick - Wikipedia

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    More than the old drystone walls that quarter the fells, the packhorse bridges or the whitewashed farmsteads, the little grey Herdwick sheep typify the Lakeland. If they and their shepherds go, that is the end of the Lakeland where I have climbed, walked, skied and skated for nearly 80 years; of the Lakeland I have written about nearly all my life.

  7. Red sky at morning - Wikipedia

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    It is based on the reddish glow of the morning or evening sky, caused by trapped particles scattering the blue light from the sun in a stable air mass. [5] If the morning skies are of an orange-red glow, it signifies a high-pressure air mass with stable air trapping particles, like dust, which scatters the sun's blue light.

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  9. Domestic sheep reproduction - Wikipedia

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    Sheep have a breeding season (tupping) in the autumn, though some can breed year-round. [1] As a result of the influence of humans on sheep breeding, ewes often produce multiple lambs. This increase in lamb births, both in number and birth weight, may cause problems with delivery and lamb survival, requiring the intervention of shepherds. [2]