Not a single sheep or lamb has been lost to a predator in the pasture in the last 20 months. The enclosure has about 250 sheep in it this winter. "We're sleeping at night now," Paul Canik said.

And when the sheep get bored, they want to check out a new place, he said, noting the flock had been in that field for about a week, and it was getting to be time to move them.

The sheep needed to leave the corral to graze that same pasture so I decided to multitask. Normally, I walk the sheep out to pasture every morning and walk them back to the safety of the corral ...

Since the fence went up, the sheep population has recovered in the hills above Rancho Mirage. She said the preventable deaths of sheep in La Quinta seem like déjà vu. “We fenced them out.

Raising sheep can be fun and rewarding if you live on a small farm or even in a rural home with a bit of available pasture space. They are docile, gentle animals for hobby farms, and they serve ...

As Lenz's video went viral, she set up a GoFundMe page, titled "Help Possum the Hero Sheep-Herding Pig Heal," to help with his injuries, and was blown away by the support it's received so far.

Business models under pressure. Like Dunning, the most expensive of the planned investments Shannon needed was a fence. Specifically, a $27,000 fence needed to keep deer out of vegetable plots.

Alex runs Powered Pasture, an electric fencing supply and advice business, as well as a 100% grass fed and finished beef and sheep unit near Pitlochry, Perthshire.