The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

To hold a herd of cattle on a new range till they felt at home was called `` locatin' '' 'em.

To keep 'em scattered somewhat and yet herd 'em was called `` loose herdin' ''.

A `` wet herd '' was a herd of cattle made up entirely of cows, while `` wet stuff '' referred to cows givin' milk.

`` Mixed herd '' meant a herd of mixed sexes, while a `` straight steer herd '' was one composed entirely of steers, and when the cowman spoke of `` mixed cattle '', he meant cattle of various grades, ages, and sexes.

This method of countin' was usually done at the request, and in the presence, of a representative of the bank that held the papers against the herd.

Again it was used as the title for the hoss wrangler, and when the order was given to go out and `` rustle the hosses '', it meant for 'im to go out and herd 'em in.

The etymology from ken – tauros, " piercing bull-stickers " was a Euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus ' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales ( Περὶ ἀπίστων ): mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom.

Pedro's coming-of-age gift to El Cid was his pick of a horse from an Andalusian herd.

In 1998, the remaining herd was sold to the Nuuk municipality and removed through hunting.

In 2008, there was still a strong herd at the Isortoq Reindeer Station maintained by the Icelander Stefán Magnússon and Norwegian Ole Kristiansen.

Dejacque " rejected Blanquism, which was based on a division between the ‘ disciples of the great people ’ s Architect ’ and ‘ the people, or vulgar herd ,’ and was equally opposed to all the variants of social republicanism, to the dictatorship of one man and to ‘ the dictatorship of the little prodigies of the proletariat .’ With regard to the last of these, he wrote that: ‘ a dictatorial committee composed of workers is certainly the most conceited and incompetent, and hence the most anti-revolutionary, thing that can be found ...( It is better to have doubtful enemies in power than dubious friends )’.

Once-vassal dynasties in Armenia, Cappadocia, and Pontus were threatening Syria and northern Mesopotamia ; the nomadic Parthians, brilliantly led by Mithridates I of Parthia had overrun uppland Media ( home of the famed Nisean horse herd ); and Roman intervention was an ever-present threat.

A Vargulf was the kind of wolf that slaughtered many members of a flock or herd but ate little of the kill.

This was a serious problem for herders, who had to somehow destroy the rogue wolf before it destroyed the entire flock or herd.

The denazification procedures against Heidegger continued until March 1949, when he was finally pronounced a " Mitläufer " ( literally, mit = with, Läufer = runner, i. e. " one who runs along with ", but the equivalent meaning in English is closer to " bandwagon effect " or " herd instinct ", standing for the notion that people often do and believe things merely because many other people do and believe the same things ) of National Socialism, and no punitive measures against him were proposed.

In 2009, two adults and one calf escaped the herd, and after attacking humans and killing cattle, one of the adults ( called " Pepe ") was killed by hunters under authorization of the local authorities.

In 1847, a herd of wisent-cattle hybrids named żubroń was created by Leopold Walicki.

Buckets were filled, the herd fed and watered.

Heracles then had to herd the cattle back to Eurystheus.

In 1800 there were three Red Deer on the island, later replaced by goats and then a small herd of black cattle.

Beyond Lynton the path passes through the Valley of the Rocks, known for its herd of goats, then Duty Point and Lee Bay, then Crock Point and Woody Bay.

Group dances include the Snake and Buffalo dance, where the group dances to mimic the motions of a snake in the beginning of the dance, then change to mimic the actions of a herd of buffalo.

If the breeding records show that one parent is of a breed other than Holstein-Friesian or Holstein or Friesian, then such parent must be a purebred animal fully registered in a herd book of a dairy-breed society recognised by the Society.

The pipeline allowed barn length to keep increasing and expanding, but after a point farmers started to milk the cows in large groups, filling the barn with one-half to one-third of the herd, milking the animals, and then emptying and refilling the barn.

The player's secondary goal is to save the various ruminants ( referred to as ' beasties ') that wander each level, by collecting them into a docile herd which will then follow the player in a line for the rest of the level.

A company of men from the encampment then arrived and were able to chase away the fleeing Indians and recover the herd, but Smith's horse was stolen.

He went to school at Ayton and Oldcambus, Berwickshire, and was then for three years a herd boy, but kept up his education.

Porcine herpesviruses and rotaviruses can be eliminated from the donor pool by screening, however others ( such as parvovirus and circovirus ) may contaminate food and footwear then re-infect the herd.

Finally some of the young ones begin to go up and smell it and then run back to the herd.

The Carnotaurus then confronts them, but Aladar rallies the herd to drive it off by standing together and scaring it off with intimidation.

In Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Timothy Snyder wrote that " Dirlewanger's preferred method was to herd the local population inside a barn, set the barn on fire, and then shoot with machine guns anyone who tried to escape.

If the proportion of the population that is immune exceeds the herd immunity level for the disease, then the disease can no longer persist in the population.

The two cattlemen sold beef to the army for $ 12, 000 in gold, and then Loving drove the stock cattle on to Colorado and sold them near Denver, while Goodnight returned to Weatherford, the seat of Parker County, Texas, with the gold and also for a second herd.

A herd of horses were then driven into the same corral or " threshing field ".

In 1873, Sparks bought a large herd of cattle in Texas then drove them to Wyoming and established a ranch in the Chugwater River valley near Cheyenne.

As range cattle operations of the day typically ran one bull per twenty brood cows it was far cheaper to improve an existing herd by replacing the bulls then by creating a whole new herd.

The Native Americans would surround the bison, and then try to herd them off cliffs or into places where they could be more easily killed.

Hercules then had to herd the cattle back to Eurystheus.

Philip Percival, Hemingway's safari guide in 1933, joined the couple for the four-month expedition ; they traveled from the banks of the Salengai, where Earl Theisen photographed Hemingway with a herd of elephants, to the Kimana Swamp, the Rift Valley and then on to visit Patrick in central Tanganyika.

Back then, giving a child custody of the entire herd was a way to teach them leadership and responsibility, for one day they would probably own a herd of their own.