#Sheep Herding

[doglover43]

i will never stop loving sheepdogs we truly do not deserve them

[archival-canine]

Verhoef-Verhallen, Esther J.J. The Dog Encyclopedia, by Esther J.J. Verhoef-Verhallen, Firefly Books Ltd., 1997, p. 24.

[manic-maniac-man]

ASEEDONCLÖUD

AW12 presentation

THEME: bokudougi

IMAGE SOURCE: A progress of shep-herd boy in a journey with sheep

STYLE: Rustic Charm

KEYWORD: Heavy Layered

[softpawssharpteeth]

California Red Ewe and her Lambs.

[mary162000]

Looking for a Midwest read? These are my favorites.

[beranicantdraw]

Pretty happy with how this came out. I should have spent more time on it but it was meant to be cheap and quick ;-;

[nmnomad]

Roaming the Four Corners, somewhere along IR-9. The sheep outnumber people and cows. I wonder if people realize how much work goes into #Navajo textiles BEFORE the #weaving begins??

[fogaminghub]

🎮 Just dropped a comprehensive guide for “The Sheep and the Goats” mission in Red Dead Redemption 2! 🐐✨ Whether you're struggling to herd sheep or aiming for that elusive Gold Medal, we’ve got the strategies you need. 

Don’t miss out on mastering this pivotal mission and enhancing your gameplay!

[michellemisfit]

We’re in Cumbria. Land of the sheep.

Literally. It belongs to them. We’re just visiting.

[loribellatlc]

My area of Rainbow, CA has a dog rescue, wolf rescue, horse rescue and dog herding and training for Hollywood. My Rembrandt collie was already partially trained when we adopted him.

Leo Grillo is in Glendale, CA deltarescue.org and has ties to Hollywood. He was an actor once upon a time.

MountainMeadoweEquine.org

She's a lady and knows she has many fans.

[doglover43]

take your kids to work day!!

[archival-canine]

Verhoef-Verhallen, Esther J.J. The Dog Encyclopedia, by Esther J.J. Verhoef-Verhallen, Firefly Books Ltd., 1997, p. 27.

[softpawssharpteeth]

Welsh sheepdogs working in the valley.

[dramatic-dolphin]

me: i'm adding realism to this medieval fantasy setting

what people think i mean: grime, gratuitous sexual assault and murder, misogyny, child marriage

what i actually mean: everyone reads out loud, women are spinning wool all the time, peasants marry at 20, people wear colors.

[beranicantdraw]

[head-post]

Spain cancels annual spectacle of sheep herding to avoid spreading bluetongue

Madrid’s regional government on Thursday cancelled the traditional annual grazing of flocks of sheep in the centre of the Spanish capital, scheduled for Sunday, as a preventive measure against a new type of bluetongue disease, Spanish media reported.

Bluetongue, spread by insects, can be fatal to domestic ruminants such as sheep, cattle and goats. The disease is common in different parts of Spain and has different variants.

A new variant, BTV3, has been circulating in the Netherlands, northern Belgium and western Germany since last year and has recently appeared in south-west Spain, Ministry of Agriculture figures show.

Although no cases of the new variant have been detected in the Madrid area, authorities have cancelled border crossings as a precaution. A spokesman for the Madrid government’s agriculture department told Reuters:

“We are in an area where we have to limit the concentration and movement of livestock.”

Fiesta de la Trashumancia

Every year since 1994, as part of the annual “Fiesta de la Trashumancia��� event, sheep herders drive their cattle through the city along a track that once ran through undeveloped countryside on their way to winter pastures in southern Spain.

The shepherds pay a symbolic fee in recognition of a 1418 agreement with the city council that set a fee of 50 maravedis – medieval copper coins – per 1,000 sheep brought through the central square of Sol and Gran Via.

The Fiesta de la Trashumancia (“Feast of Migrations”) originated as an agricultural practice to prevent overgrazing, and the revived migrant festival is now held every autumn, usually in late October.

A modern tribute to the ancient rite was devised by the Transhumance and Nature Foundation.

Now masses of sheep, and sometimes horses and bulls, gather in the Spanish capital once a year. Before the flocks march through the city, women in headdresses called mantillas dance the traditional Spanish “jota” along with men in wide trousers tucked into long socks. The dancers’ shoes are adorned with spikes – a sign of respect for the pastors who use them to walk on muddy terrain.

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