We ride in a loose formation, forcing the sheep into a single bunch as we move towards the neck of a valley.
All in all, though, turning a sheep pasture into an income-producing mall was a winner for Haight.
"We have to get it out of supporting cows, sheep and goats and into supporting skills, universities and innovation, " he added.
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This was a TV show about sheepdog trials: you know the sort of thing, can a dog round up the sheep and get them into the pen, as in that movie, Babe.
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.
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.
The sheep kept swimming straight out into the lake.
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The treatment is produced transgenically - meaning that human proteins are injected into the genetic material of a sheep and collected through its milk.
Two inquiries have been launched into the cause of a massive blunder that led to five years of research into the possibility of BSE in sheep being scrapped.
Local residents used it to mark sheep, and soon discovered that they could cut it into sticks and carry it with them.
They storm into the dealership like lions but walk out like sheep.
Reproductive cloning, which created Dolly the sheep in 1997, involves transferring the nucleus of an adult cell into an egg, giving the resulting embryo a full set of genes without the normal sperm-meets-egg fertilisation step.
Sure enough, after several minutes, hundreds of sheep appear over the brow of the hill and obediently make their way into the pen.
The prospect of cloning a human moved from science fiction into the realm of possibility in 1997, when Dolly the sheep became the first mammal to be cloned from an adult.
Sir Ian and his team fused the genetic information from an adult sheep cell nucleus with an egg cell to form an embryo that developed into a genetically identical copy of the original adult.
Because the dogs are meant to herd rebellious sheep from different angles, each is played a separate and individual tune drilled into their memories when pups.
Get into the local swing of things and load your breakfast plate with tangy sheep's-milk cheese, plump olives, flavourful tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, home-made jam and freshly-baked crusty white bread or simit (a sesame-encrusted bread ring).
As a result of the negotiations, the Farming Minister Jane Kennedy has confirmed farmers in England will not now have to electronically tag sheep intended for slaughter before they are 12 months old when the new rules come into force.
In Dolly's case, those cells were allowed to continue developing into an embryo that was then transferred to a ewe to produce a cloned sheep.
The couple, who moved into a horsebox on the smallholding in 2009, have greenhouses, chickens, sheep and pigs and aim to live as self-sufficiently as they can.
Individuals strayed into areas with little wild prey and plenty of livestock, a handful of sheep and cattle were killed and two pack members were shot dead.
Mr Schwartz is a former director of the Institut Pasteur in France, and his book maps out with great clarity the scientific investigation into how scrapie a disease that has long been known to afflict sheep came to cross the species barrier to cows, and then from cows to humans.
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.
Freemen of the Irish capital have the right to graze sheep on common ground within the city boundaries and Geldof could follow in the footsteps of U2 who brought lambs into St Stephen's Green when they received the honour six years ago.
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