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Peter looking over the grazing field of Holm field searching for his sheep.
On the 18th January, the weather and conditions were good enough to track sheep in order to take away the males from the rest of the flock. With the help of six crofters (including three on quad bikes) and a few dogs, around 473 hectares of land in Holm field were covered. The task was to guide and gather the sheep spread all over the hills, into a sheep pen, take the males and free the others. While men on quad bikes drove all over the place, pushing the sheep in the right direction, crofters on foot circled the flock, guiding them towards the pen with huge help from their dogs. The job ended after two hours of tracking. Peter managed to find only one of his males out of three. Hopefully by the time now he managed to get the two others.
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Two crofters talk each others while looking at the others on quad bikes gathering sheep with the help of sheep dogs.
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A crofter is taking his position on the top of the hill while the sheep dog is going towards the sheep herd.
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Once the sheep herd is in the sheep pen, males are taking away before released the others.
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Peter, catching his male sheep before put it in a trailer.
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The male sheep on its own in a field in Cunningsburgh. It will spend there the rest of the winter.
