For decades, they came to work as sheep herders, tending flocks for months at a time in the grassy hills.
Dancers are dressed as sheep and their herders, rather than candy.
For much of its history, the people of Dartmoor have depended on indigenous materials - such as granite and tin - for their livelihoods and sustenance, as well as livestock such as sheep.
Local people reckon a couple of swans can graze as much as a sheep.
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It will keep maintenance costs down as the sheep will 'cut' the paddocks.
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Mr. Palsson, a bellhop, has no interest in whale and other traditional Icelandic foods such as smoked sheep head, goat testicles and rotten shark.
The bus startled a herd of yaks who stampeded off the road like sheep as we approached.
Anthrax is a rare bacterial infection most commonly found in hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep and goats.
The primitive "Avebury Stone Circle, Wiltshire" (1945) emerges from a fog, the grazing sheep as archaic as the megaliths.
Foot-and-mouth disease affects animals with cloven hooves such as pigs, sheep and cows.
The operation then moved to Ipswich on 21 September where more than 20 protestors gathered as the first sheep were exported.
One farmer in Upper Teesdale said he feared he could lose his entire flock of sheep as poor weather conditions continue to hit the region.
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Finally, in 1888, the island was annexed by Chile and run as a nationalised sheep ranch, with the natives, by now walled inside one small town, providing a captive labour force.
Much of the rest of the islands' productive acreage is used as pastureland for sheep and cattle, whose flatulence helps explain greenhouse gas emissions triple those of the U.S. on a per capita basis.
Sheep were targeted in 1792 - which became known as the Year of the Sheep - following clearances in Sutherland and Easter Ross.
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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.
She wears the traditional fine-woven, huge-brimmed hat and her gathered black skirt sways as she guides the sheep through the pasture in a circuit back to the village for the night.
It is not yet clear how many sheep have died as a result of the snow.
And though some alien species--such as horses, cattle and sheep--are important parts of our culture and commerce, many are pests.
They produced a lively and, to all intents and purposes, normal sheep, known as Dolly, from the nucleus of a mammary-gland cell.
In turn, these massive U-shaped glacially formed valleys create a home for countless species of flora and fauna, including animals such as the much photographed mountain sheep and the elusive grizzly bear.
The road to Arniston passes through an area known as the Overberg, where sheep and cattle share miles of undulating farmland and an occasional copse of eucalyptus stands stark against the horizon.
As the reputation of Basque sheep herders grew, an infrastructure of boarding houses quickly sprang up to direct immigrant Basques into the burgeoning American sheep industry despite the antipathy of the cattle ranchers who wanted the land for themselves.
There are six villages and one settlement within the biosphere reserve, with a total of 10, 000 people (1997) who are mainly engaged in the cultivation of cereals (wheat, barley, corn), vegetables and melons, as well as in animal husbandry (sheep, cattle, pig).
Herdwicks, which often graze at heights of about 3, 000ft (915 metres), are recognised as one of the hardiest British sheep breeds.
And as I've lost no sheep to these common predators, the donkeys seem to me to be doing their jobs pretty well.
He had a job to do, namely, earn his keep by guarding the sheep that Elmer raised as part of his livelihood.
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