Local people reckon a couple of swans can graze as much as a sheep.
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'We used to compare him to an Airedale dog or a sheep hound or something.
"The Diamond District was a bunch of wolves and he was a sheep, " Isaac said.
One refugee in Lebanon said his family has spent the year living in a sheep shed.
All in all, though, turning a sheep pasture into an income-producing mall was a winner for Haight.
We start in the English countryside, on a sheep farm, owned and operated by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
"About the last thing I ever thought I'd make an investment in is a sheep station, " he says.
His cashmere overcoat and tall boots marked him out as a man who was not short of a sheep or two.
Judge Martin Griffith told St Albans Crown Court a witness was unavailable, working on a sheep farm in Australia.
Casu marzu is a sheep cheese popular on the Italian island of Sardinia.
When I got my troubled border collie Orson, we started learning to herd at a sheep farm in Pennsylvania.
This time, Gromit, the smart dog, and Wallace, his well-meaning, slightly slow owner, set out to catch a sheep rustler.
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Every now and again, a sheep breaks loose and heads up the rocky hillside, from where it has to be coaxed back down.
Mrs Jackson said her father, who is also a sheep farmer, had never seen a lamb as big as Joan before.
Casares grew up in near isolation on a sheep farm in Patagonia, Argentina, some 6, 000 miles away from Palo Alto, California.
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Further down we have mythical beasts with the trunk of an elephant, the head of an ox, and the feet of a sheep.
The treatment is produced transgenically - meaning that human proteins are injected into the genetic material of a sheep and collected through its milk.
Mr. Monis recommends using a sheep's milk variety stored in brine.
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Before the event, show officials said it was a major attraction and visitors enjoyed watching as shearers clipped a sheep's fleece in a trial against the clock.
Mr Rowbottom said he left dairy farming 15 months ago, partly due to the state of the industry, but still runs an agricultural feed business alongside a sheep farm at Ipstones.
First we are told that the risk of humans spreading the disease is only likely if you come into contact with livestock, you cannot simply spread the disease by looking at a sheep a mile away.
McDull himself is a pug-nosed little porker with a big brown eye, a feature inherited from his mother, and he sounds rather like a Cantonese version of Babe, the movie pig who thought he was a sheep-dog.
Ten years ago, Chamberlin, who is also a sheep farmer, noted during a sheep shearing session that he and his sheep were suffering from a massive fly infestation, while his pet cockatoo was being ignored by the flies.
Meanwhile, the women were asked to run over an assault course while carrying buckets of water and tackle the butchery skills needed to separate a sheep's liver, heart and lungs to make faggots under the guidance of a local butcher.
The ministry would also like to oversee a wider distribution of genes from the small percentage of British rams that are resistant to scrapie, a sheep disease similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad-cow disease as it is more commonly known.
From the proceeds, Mr Oswald, who runs a 350-acre livestock farm with Highland cattle and New Zealand Romney sheep, bought a tractor and a new sheep poly-tunnel.
This sale includes two lots of sharks, a calf, a black sheep, a zebra and four skinned cows' heads, as well as a pony dressed up with a plastic narwhal horn to look like a unicorn.
As Longtown sells about 15, 000 sheep a week on average, that's a lot of sheep.
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