At times they explored group dynamics by skating in flock formation; at others they glided alone into spaces that looked truly lonesome.
No one knows what purpose it serves, though it's thought to play some role in flock cohesion.
In those same family albums were pictures of my boyfriend in a T-shirt with different coloured sleeves and his name in flock.
"In the past 10 to 20 years, there has been unprecedented tree planting on farmland and fells, and reductions in flock sizes by a third to a half.
Thus, Jakar sheep is surviving with a diminishing utility of wool and herders favouring the reduction in flock sizes.
Significant differences in flock size, sheep and/or goat heads per holding, milk per adult female in flock, fecundity and the share of grazing on covering energy requirements of sheep and goats are observed between the various regions of Greece (A compilation of data produced by the Department of Nutritional Physiology and Feeding at the Agricultural University of Athens).
We were lucky enough to be added to the default news feeds in Flock today, which makes us very, very happy.
Depredation by wildlife, skin diseases, feed shortages and labour shortages continue to impede sheep farming and has led to reduction in flock size or farmers giving up sheep farming.
In schemes 3 and 4, profit per ewe was optimal when the top 5%, 5 %, 10 and 10%and10%ms were selected in the first selectiof stage foramsC measurement in FLOCK, FEED, TR and IR, respectively.
Recent renewed drives to maintain farming activities on extensive areas have been encouraged at the EU level, which previously had witnessed a phenomenon of partial abandonment and reduction in flock sizes.
