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Nope "shepherd" (EDIT: shepherding is only for sheep, herding is the general term via maxerikson). I've never seen husbandry used for individuals, shepherding h
by kosievdmerwe 7y ago
Nope "shepherd" (EDIT: shepherding is only for sheep, herding is the general term via maxerikson). I've never seen husbandry used for individuals, shepherding however is a part of animal husbandry.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoHerdsman or stockman and there's an old English name that completely eludes me at the moment. Then also the species variations of shepherd: goatherd, swineherd and cowherd. Edit: Most herdsmen in the UK had their own number system - 123: yan, tan, teddera etc. I wonder if that's the case elsewhere.
- ipsi 7y agoIt looks like it was a slightly different system in various regions of the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Tan_Tethera
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoWow, I knew it varied widely across the country, but not between places only a dozen miles apart. Nor that it tracks back 1,500 years or more - which presumably explains the many variations!