Sentences with phrase «small flocks of»

The sun is nearly set by 9 p.m. Small flocks of Canada geese are beginning their flight training.

Geared towards backyard chicken enthusiasts, this presentation focuses on diseases that affect small flocks of chickens and / or turkeys.

Often rushing the sheep or making mistakes that spooked the small flocks of four, the dogs nonetheless showed great promise for a future as a farmer's working partner.

Weaving through small flocks of commuters and tourists on a concrete strip along the East River may not sound like the most restorative of morning rituals, but for me it has become a sort of meditation.

Throughout southeast Asia, the widespread practice of rural families raising small flocks of chickens in their backyards brings wild birds into close contact with domestic poultry, which are in close contact with humans.

Such are hired servants and not willfull servants, such won't watch over a small flock of believers because they want fixed income that suits thier lifestyle, the office of pastor and teacher are not salaried positions but are a service to God as a noble task to feed and watch over souls willingly and lovingly, top dollar should not play a roll in ones willingness to equip and lead whom you love.

Our partner, Dan Snyder of Grouse Park, clearly demonstrated that a small flock of Greater Prairie Chickens can produce the ideal amount of fertile eggs for germ - line transmission research.

Project collaborators Holland Shaw and John Bender have volunteered to help expand our small flock of Band - tailed Pigeons to the numbers needed for a successful de-extinction program.

I was just researching a way to keep my small flock of chickens from spilling their feed everywhere, this is worth a try and super cute!

Her first proposal comes from Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts), a farmer with a promising portion of land and small flock of sheep.

I grew up with a small flock of goats, and I can assure you that not all sheep are dumb, the flock instinct much - mocked is a vital survival tool for them.

Dr. Teter lives in Schuylkill County with her husband and daughter.She also has a small flock of chickens.In her free time, she enjoys knitting, reading, making wine, and spending time outdoors.

The initial work has also been done for a weaver who runs a small flock of colored sheep, a farmer storing feed grain in his barn, a flock - owner in wolf territory, a recreational musher, a rabbit hunter, and a pet owner with an interest in any of the characteristics of the herding, guarding, terrier, working, or hound dogs; what remains is to find just the right breed to match the lifestyle and personality of the owner.

Outside of veterinary medicine, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife and young sons, their lab mix, two cats that followed him home from Hawaii, and a small flock of chickens.

Kelly lives with her husband, 2 kids, 3 dogs, 2 cats and a small flock of chickens.

If you are a sheep rancher in a remote region of Montana, or only have a small flock of sheep in a hobby farm in Wisconsin or Minnesota, these classes may not be available.

Carrie has a small farm with 3 horses, 2 Nigerian goats, 1 heeler, 4 cats, and a small flock of mixed bantams.

She lovers her French Bulldog, Cecely, and has a small flock of chickens that she adores!

Some advocates promote the OES not only as a family pet but as a wonderful herding dog for smaller flocks of sheep, goats, ducks and geese.

Family pets include two dogs, both border collies (Gilly and Jack) currently being trained for sheep herding trials; cats (Tahlula, Dorito and Mango), a rabbits (Scooter), a tortoise (Tortillini), two chinchillas, a pen full of chickens and ducks and lastly, a small flock of sheep (for Gilly and Jack).

What your dog has to do is to try and herd a small flock of sheep around an obstacle course and then over bridges to try and get the flock of sheep successfully back into the pen.

Even as a puppy, a potential herding dog can be placed in a yard or pen with a small flock of geese to see if he's interested in gathering them together.

They currently share their home with three cats, two dogs, a small flock of chickens, a leopard gecko and four beehives.

A small flock of sage grouse, partially camouflaged by the sagebrush, waited patiently for us to pass by, sometimes spooked by the enormous steel cage on wheels that made our trip possible.

In the meantime, I hear a small flock of robins were sighted near Wave Hill House this past Monday, so I am looking forward eagerly to our next regular Sunday morning birding, on March 8.

In Sheeploop (2000), a small flock of sheep, grazing in a field that overlooks the sea, wander into a static frame and, circling back, out of it.

Not exact matches

Small businesses flocked to social media in 2009, with their adoption of the technology doubling from 12 percent to 24 percent, says a new University of Maryland / Network Solutions study.

When BIC unveiled its «For Her» lady - pens — pastel - coloured, slightly smaller, but retailing for 70 % more — throngs of sarcastic women flocked to Amazon to review the product.

Because of the relatively small market and the long, unpredictable path to getting a product made and approved, SCI therapies tend not to be the kinds of investments VCs flock toward.

Despite the lure of cheap calls and new business - focused services, small companies are hardly flocking to VOIP Web sites.

Unlike their more seasoned peers, whose valuations have soared into the tens of billions of dollars, this year's flock of unicorns have somewhat smaller price tags.

Finding a new flock of doubters is always possible, but the flock will necessarily be smaller — such is the distribution curve in human populations.

It's scary... and you know what's even more scary, is the fact that most 5 - point Calvinist pastors keep these disturbing ideas to themselves, and they are leading both small and exceedingly large churches in the direction of Calvinist thinking without the flock even knowing.

On these grounds our future reader of Denzinger, although he belongs to the small, poor flock of the Church, will have a proud and calm attitude to the non-Christian world around him.

Everywhere they will be a little flock, because mankind grows quicker than Christendom and because men will not be Christians by custom and tradition, through institutions and history, or because of the homogeneity of a social milieu and public opinion, but — leaving out of account the sacred flame of parental example and the intimate sphere of home, family and small groups — they will be Christians only because of their own act of faith attained in a difficult struggle and perpetually achieved anew.

On one small island, a whole flock of them was gathered around something, pecking away at it.

Start with a flock of three or four hens at the most, as a small flock will be a little less work, require less feed and less clean up than a larger flock.

We have a collection of heritage fruit trees, a flock of chickens, and four gardeners (two of the large and two of the small varieties).

I homeschool our three kids on a small farm and find great happiness tending my flock of fibre sheep.

We have been learning a lot, trying to grow as much food in a small space as we can, and still have room to give the chicken flock spots to «pasture,» leaving a little space in the yard for two beehives, two dogs and two kids with lots of playmates!

Some breeds are well known for being very calm and docile, so if you have small children, you might want to choose a flock of these breeds, including buff Orpingtons, Australorps, Cochins Brahmas or Faverolles.

Lorigo also claimed that his party applies its alleged principles of smaller government and lower taxes when picking candidates, but a 2012 Buffalo News profile of the party entitled, «Conservatives flock to the public payroll; Many party players hold jobs that rely on government's ability to tax and spend,» clearly outlines how the Lorigo machine uses its party endorsements simply to gain power and influence, not help the taxpayers of Erie County.

Sparrows, doves, blackbirds and all sorts of other small and medium bird species will flock to this feeder.

Planet Labs, the San Francisco start - up that built Flock 1, is one of a growing group of companies and governments launching very small satellites.

Cavagna and colleagues found their models showed up a range of medium - sized flocks that were too small for traditional density waves to spread, and too large for direction changes to spread, making any sort of coordination between members impossible.

This collective group of small nanosatellites, known as Flock 1, will be joined by 28 additional Dove satellites, Flock 1b, on the Orbital - 2 mission.

How flocks of small, cheap satellites, hatched in Silicon Valley, will constantly monitor a changing Earth.

The idea is that Passenger Pigeons evolved to live in huge flocks and became dependent on their large flocks, meaning they could not produce enough offspring to survive unless there were billions of them, either for social reasons (they would not breed in small flocks), for predator reasons (they could not satiate predators without huge flocks), or for resource reasons (they could not find adequate food sources in small populations).

In my attempt to keep things more simple, I kept the big tree in it's box and opted for this small white flocked Christmas tree that my daughter decked out with a flock of cardinals.

I added a small flocked tree to my crock, my willow tree nativity (which i LOVE pulling out year after year... i think this is my 9th year, and i love it today as much as i did the first day) and a few other touches of Christmas to the space.