So good luck to Michael O'Neill in persuading any "lost sheep" to return.
When he told his priests Thursday "to go look for the lost sheep, " he added that when they come back, they "better smell like those sheep, " Arroyo said.
And as I've lost no sheep to these common predators, the donkeys seem to me to be doing their jobs pretty well.
He said he, along with three neighbouring farmers near Llanfairfechan, estimated they alone had lost nearly 300 sheep.
He said nobody would know the amount of sheep lost until they were able to get access to them.
He said there was no exact figure but there would probably be thousands of lambs and sheep lost in England and Wales.
An emergency helpline led to hundreds of people coming forward to help find sheep and cattle lost in the snow.
Stewart Moffat, farming at Wigton in the Lake District, lost all his cattle and sheep on 4 April, the 1, 000th confirmed case in what the NFU is now terming "the world's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth".
He said there was no exact figure for the number of stock lost but there would probably be thousands of lambs and sheep in England and Wales.
That makes Crook County (pop. 13, 500) the nation's last bellwether county. (Bellwether, literally, means the lead sheep in a flock.) The nation lost its other remaining perfect prognosticator in 1984, when Walter Mondale edged Reagan by 303 votes in Iowa's Palo Alto County.
Sheep farmer John Hebditch, who farms on the Levels near North Curry, said he lost everything during the flooding, with 90% of his grazing land affected.
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