Even if they generally manage to produce their own hay, they have to buy supplementary fodder, the price of which has strongly increased: "In previous years, we fed them with fodder like maize, barley, and compound feed, but now, the prices of fodder are quite high" (shepherd from Šipkovica, MK: 11/2007).
The share of hired farm labour is very high in shepherding, shearing, breeding and milking, although the family members could have done these tasks, suggesting that these members preferred other jobs over livestock husbandry or that they were more qualified for other jobs elsewhere where they earned more.
The most recent discovery, a month and a half ago, was that of a shepherd high in the peaks, his head barely protruding from the muck.
And the high cost of shepherding a project through the labyrinthine U.N. approval process has shut many poorer countries out.
For a while he worked alongside Mickey Mantle at the former Claridge Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, playing golf and hanging out at the bar with high rollers, and shepherding Mantle, an alcoholic, to his room when he started getting belligerent.
Underfed girls in too tall high heels are shepherded by promoters to the bar because the Gastropub is sandwiched by two night clubs, above and below it.
With promiscuity and sexual freedom at the heart of gay culture's many daring cultural innovations, we went on to elevate erotic photography to high art with Mapplethorpe, shepherd the birth of House music at the Paradise Garage, and test publishing's limits with Dennis Cooper's transgressive eroticism.
Traditionally, the cheese was made by Basque shepherds from the milk of Latxa sheep in communal shepherds' huts high in the Pyrenees, where all summer and into the fall they absorbed fireplace smoke.
We found that population-specific Fst was lowest in populations that had high connectivity within the shepherding network, and that well-connected populations within the network had significantly higher genetic diversity than ungrazed and more isolated grazed populations.
Mr. Sheldon was shepherding high-school students on the ship, used as his floating classroom, when a horrific squall welled up and abruptly sank it.
The lack of disclosure -- unusual for such a high-profile agreement shepherded by a bank regulator -- extended to members of the media.
