Sheep were targeted in 1792 - which became known as the Year of the Sheep - following clearances in Sutherland and Easter Ross.
There will be no tungsten sheep-fleece, but sheep in future will grow not just more wool, but softer wool.
That never got in the way of a good PR-grabbing, sheep-baiting headline of course.
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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.
Pinot Gris (pronounced "gree") is the black sheep, or anyway, the purple-brown sheep, of one of the grape world's most noble families.
And though some alien species--such as horses, cattle and sheep--are important parts of our culture and commerce, many are pests.
All of Ellis's livestock -- 67 pigs, 71 cattle and 47 sheep -- were immediately shot and burned, and for a while it looked as if the outbreak might have been contained.
It is a technique called nuclear transfer -- the same used to create Dolly the sheep -- and until Mitalipov's research there had been skepticism over whether a primate could be cloned in the same manner.
As such, the globe's population of sheep-white-earbudded, sidewalk zombies have been completely off limits to its charms.
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Thanks to revenues from fishing licences, Falklanders are no longer poor folk dependent on a dying sheep-farming industry.
The farming crisis has hit Maurice Vellacott so badly he has begun shooting his sheep - because he says they are worthless.
The centre became famous in 1996 for creating Dolly the sheep - the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell.
"One of the things I definitely want to do here is introduce Cotswold sheep - which are a rare breed now, " he said.
As he explains it, the gradual movement of coyotes northward plus the rise of synthetic fabrics have combined to make sheep-raising an endangered occupation in these parts.
Sadly, it has been copied by the sheep-like herds.
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Dolly the sheep -- the first cloned animal -- was created over 10 years ago, and the only previous claim of human embryo cloning by South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang in 2004, was discredited.
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.
Dr. Alan Colman, a member of the team that cloned Dolly the sheep -- the first cloned mammal -- in 1997, told CNN that within 20 years stem cell therapies could be used to treat degenerative diseases such as diabetes, congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease.
The study, published in Biology Letters, backs previous theories which suggest male sheep's horns are curved to withstand head-on clashes, while female sheep's horns are spiked in order to push competitors away.
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Not surprisingly, Glander makes full use of what's right around him--our spring weekend was heavy on ramps, young peas, sheep's-milk ricotta and hemlock (from the tree, not the poisonous plant).
The strath was cleared of families 200 years ago to make way for large-scale sheep production.
It is against this background that the famous depiction of the youthful Good Shepherd, sitting among snow-white sheep, is placed.
The campaigner, a heavily-moustached sheep farmer, has been compared to the French cartoon character Asterix, who fights against the legions of the Roman Empire.
That same liberalization presented Tusher with a dilemma: The government's friendlier posture toward development meant that someone might someday build condos on the 65, 000-acre sheep ranch surrounding his resort.
Chappell's newest business venture is Rambler's Way Farm, which this summer will start selling long underwear knitted by American workers from superfine wool taken from Maine, Montana and Dakotas-raised sheep.
Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.
Starting in the late 18th Century and running into the 19th Century, the Highland Clearances saw townships occupied by generations of families cleared to make way for large-scale sheep farming and the rearing of deer.
"It's one thing doing exploration, but when you come to development, we're talking about bigger volumes of materials and to get that there is expensive because at the moment there's nothing there -- just sheep farmers, " he said.
When Frederick William John Augustus Hervey became the seventh marquess on the death of his father in 1985 he inherited a useful pile of possessions, including a 57, 000-acre sheep station in Australia and four oil wells in Louisiana.
In Fylingdales, among the black-faced sheep of northern Yorkshire, sits a radar station built by the U.S. If expanded, it could well become an outpost much needed to track missiles on their way to North America and to plot their interception.
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