A flock of sheep, two cows, four donkeys, a cat named Mother, chickens, a rooster and four dogs — these are the central characters of Jon Katz's "Dog Days," a chronicle of recent doings on the farm where he lives in upstate New York.
From the farm's small flock of dark-eyed Jersey cows, colourful goats and ignorant sheep came the most incredible cheeses.
The sole sign of one of the 3,500 Kurdish villages destroyed by Saddam is often a pathetic pile of stones in a field where people once lived before they were killed or forced to flee, their herds of cows and flocks of sheep slaughtered, and concrete poured down the village well.
There are 14 cottages, four with permanent tenants who work on the estate, as well as a herd of cows and a flock of sheep.
Once the disease strikes a herd of cows or a flock of sheep, the only way to stop it from spreading is to isolate the infected animals and destroy them.
The burden would be even worse for rural families that don't farm full-time, but make ends meet by keeping a flock of chickens or a cow for milk.
I took the slow route around the parish, forgoing the highway for the meandering Cane River, past fields that shimmered with a carpeting of yellow wildflowers, flocks of birds, grazing cows, plantations, and old country churches of the type that Clementine Hunter herself painted again and again.
"They are replicas of cows.
We drove by a herd of cows.
