One of them, on the island of Skye, says he now keeps "an almost sacrificial stock of sheep" out on the hill to prevent the sea eagles coming lower down.
A Cumbrian farmer has described how snow drifts of up to 20ft (6 metres) claimed a fifth of his stock of sheep.
for the method was consistently around 8% when tested on several occasions on blood samples obtained from the stock of sheep kept at the Keldur Institute during the five year span of the study.
The questionnaire covered information on both the design of the surveillance programmes for TSE in each of the healthy slaughter and fallen stock populations of sheep and the results for each year.
Intensification is also reflected in upgrading the breeding stock of local sheep (Karagouniko, Chios, Arta, Lesvos, Sfakia, Anogia, etc)., goat (indigenous, Skopelos, etc).
After the Napoleonic Wars and the global distribution of the once-exclusive Spanish stocks of Merinos, sheep raising in Spain reverted to hardy coarse-wooled breeds such as the Churra, and was no longer of international economic significance.
The vast central and northern regions too arid for the cultivation of crops were stocked with millions of sheep and cattle, converting them to rangelands.
Sentimental ties were broken, and landlords evicted large numbers of tenants from the small farms and holdings that had supported them on a meagre scale of subsistence to create larger farms stocked with flocks of sheep, immediately but only temporarily more profitable to their owners.
The exposed moorland and enclosed land on the higher slopes is mainly used to rear breeding stock – hardy hill breeds of sheep and cattle, and on Exmoor, native ponies.
In keeping with this logic, investors tended to follow one another's moves, rather like a herd of sheep; consequently, stock markets were highly volatile, with prices being driven far too high during an upswing and much too low in a downswing.
It is presumed that scrapie in Iceland originated in the Skagafjörður region around 1880 with the import of sheep of foreign stock.
