Sheep farming or sheep husbandry is the raising and breeding of domestic sheep. It is a branch of animal husbandry. Sheep are raised principally for their...
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Sheep farming is an environmental issue in Wales. Much of the nation is rural countryside and sheep are farmed throughout Wales. The woollen industry...
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Sheep Farming in Barnet is the debut studio album by the English new wave band Toyah, fronted by Toyah Willcox, released in 1979 by Safari Records. The...
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Sheep farming is a significant industry in New Zealand. According to 2007 figures reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United...
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sheep farming expanded across the Patagonian grasslands making the southern regions of Argentina and Chile one of the world's foremost sheep farming areas...
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Agriculture in the United Kingdom (redirect from Sheep farming in the United Kingdom)
moors and hill farms, which explains the tendency to focus on sheep and sometimes dairy farming. In England, the eastern and southern areas where the fields...
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products List of sheep milk cheeses Sheep farming Berger, Yves (2010). "Guide to Raising Dairy Sheep" (PDF). Milk production period "Using Sheep CIDRs - Premier1Supplies...
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Farming Simulator is a farming simulation video game series developed by GIANTS Software. The locations are based on American and European environments...
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Beatrix Potter (section Sheep farming)
Herdwick Sheep Farming; Geoff Brown, (2009) Herdwicks: Herdwick Sheep and the English Lake District; Judy Taylor, ed., (1998) Beatrix Potter's Farming Friendship...
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A sheep dog or sheepdog is generally a dog or breed of dogs historically used in connection with the raising of sheep. These include livestock guardian...
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capital, relative to the land area being farmed. Extensive farming most commonly means raising sheep and cattle in areas with low agricultural productivity...
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Hill farming or terrace farming is an extensive farming in upland areas, primarily rearing sheep, although historically cattle were often reared extensively...
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Agriculture in New Zealand (section Sheep farming)
predominate. Through the rest of New Zealand, sheep farming is the major rural activity, with beef cattle farming in the hills and high country, and dairying...
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Patagonia. The contemporary economy of eastern Patagonia revolves around sheep farming and oil and gas extraction, while in western Patagonia fishing, salmon...
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Shepherding (redirect from Sheep herding)
The term Shepherding has a number of uses: Sheep farming or sheep husbandry The work done by a Shepherd Shepherding Movement, a style of Christian discipleship...
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Narsaq (section Sheep farming)
seals. Farming is possible on the plains to the north of the town, with several actively maintained arable fields. Of the 53 registered sheep farms in...
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In sheep farming, the term mule is used to refer to a cross between a Bluefaced Leicester ram and a purebred hill (or mountain) ewe (usually a Swaledale...
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Sheep farming in Azerbaijan is directed to the production of meat, fiber (wool) and dairy products. It is considered as an old animal husbandry branch...
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which accounts for more than 80% of the total income derived from sheep farming. The fleece is double-coated, with a long outer coat (tog) which gives...
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dogs and hundreds of thousands of sheep over-wintered,: 33 and where the dogs are still abundant although sheep-farming has decreased substantially. However...
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Sheep dip is a liquid formulation of insecticide and fungicide that shepherds and farmers use to protect their sheep from infestation against external...
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introduced species. Major economic activities include fishing, tourism and sheep farming, with an emphasis on high-quality wool exports. Oil exploration, licensed...
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Animal husbandry (redirect from Pastoral farming)
000 BC onwards, predating farming of the first crops. By the time of early civilisations such as ancient Egypt, cattle, sheep, goats, and pigs were being...
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domestic sheep has occurred in nearly every inhabited part of the earth, and the variations in cultures and languages which have kept sheep has produced...
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another. The use of the term sheep-shagger to refer to a Welsh person has arisen from the prevalence of sheep and sheep farming in Wales. It is often viewed...
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Sheep (pl.: sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock. Although the term sheep can apply to...
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Michiel van Breda (section Merino sheep farming)
1817 van Breda was farming on Zoetendals Vallei farm in the region which is today called Overberg. He imported Rambouillet Merino sheep from France, together...
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sheep-rearing. Sheep farming is more common in the northwestern provinces of the country, where such tracts of land exist. China does have a native sheep breed...
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large area, much of the land in the region is rugged or closed off for sheep farming, and is unsuitable for settlement. 80% of the population lives in the...
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Riddle", which topped the UK Indie Chart. This was followed by the Sheep Farming in Barnet EP, produced by Steve James and Keith Hale. Initially released...
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