The farmer, who has a herd of 1120 sheep, failed to provide a suitable environment for his livestock between 1 October 2011 and 23 February last year.

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The court was told the farmer, who has a herd of 1, 120 sheep, failed to provide a suitable environment for his livestock between 1 October last year and 23 February this year.

BBC: Perthshire farmer admits animal suffering charges

The farmer, who has a herd of 1, 120 sheep, has been accused of failing to provide a suitable environment for his livestock between 1 October last year and 23 February this year at Welton of Creuchies farm.

BBC: Perthshire Farmer accused of abandoning animal carcasses

The bus startled a herd of yaks who stampeded off the road like sheep as we approached.

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Most shepherds graze sheep, some yaks, but many also have a herd of horses left to wander the valleys throughout summer.

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He failed to remove 354 animal carcasses, having failed to provide adequate nutrition, a suitable diet or appropriate sheltered accommodation for his herd of cattle and flock of sheep.

BBC: Perthshire farmer admits animal suffering charges

My mother, Patricia Cockburn, took my temperature and asked Paddy McMahon, an elderly man who looked after the walled garden and our small herd of sheep, to bicycle into the town of Youghal a mile and a half away, to get a doctor.

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