“Over 300 sheep decided to take a little field trip near Mountain Drive,” the tongue-in-cheek statement read. “Turns out, the grass wasn’t greener on the other side.” ...

What is clear is that the concept of counting sheep to sleep is so old it was mentioned in a 13th century compilation of short stories titled “Cento Novelle Antiche.” In one of the novellas, a ...

The benefits don’t end with the sheep. Farmers are watching their upkeep headaches dwindle, too. Conventional wisdom with grass and weeds surrounding solar panels is to break out the mowers or ...

But on Sunday mornings, he is on a grass-covered field at a rural farm in Hackettstown, N.J., standing among half a dozen sheep, whistle in hand, teaching his Border collies Cosmo and Luna to herd.

We’ve taken dogs and cats into our homes, trained hawks to hunt for us and taught pigeons to deliver our letters. Our relationship with sheep, though, is more of a symbiosis. For centuries, we ...

The sheep had been moving in a nearly perfect circle since Nov. 4. It’s unclear whether they stopped to eat or drink or whether they were still moving in unison as of Monday.