Shepherd

The sheep farm includes Ward, breeding and utilization ( milk, meat, wool) of sheep. The professional training of the shepherd (obsolete: shepherd ) has the official designation animal host, specializing in sheep. Before training to ensure only in Bavaria for a year from a professional year of primary school ( BGJ ). The training includes three years with an audit. There then exists the possibility of taking the master exam.

Shepherd

Sheep are usually kept in herds that guarded a shepherd with the help of shepherds or sheepdogs. Typically this is that the shepherd his flock ' nomadic ' through open, generally accessible country leads ( Wanderschäfer ), while other livestock is usually in the barn or in the pasture owned by the farmer. A distinction is made between hats and coupling sheep farming.

The job of a shepherd is not only limited on producer of sheep meat and wool to be. The prices for sheep meat and wool have fallen significantly in recent years. A shepherd is also custodians of the countryside, as the landscapes that are not grazed by sheep would otherwise grow in a short time with trees and shrubs. For acting as custodians of the countryside, the European Union funds.

The task of the shepherd, it is in its concrete activity to find food courts, hold the herd and to protect them from danger. Previously stayed some shepherd in small wooden shepherd carts directly over their flock. A traditional tool is the shepherd shovel.

Tasks of the shepherd

The duties of a shepherd

• Lambing and rearing of animals, including knowledge of anatomy, physiology, breeding, racial science and the reproduction of sheep;
• Knowledge of grazing and fodder production;
• Mastery of sheep husbandry in general, including animal housing, Pferchtechnik, hygiene measures and knowledge of animal diseases include;
• Hats technique with the stove dog and its training;
• The production of wool, meat and milk, as well as the marketing of these products. Therefore, he should also dominate the animal protection battles of his sheep.

History

The sheep is one of the oldest trades in the world. The domestication of the sheep began 10,000 years ago in Asia Minor and spread from there all over Asia and Europe. At earlier times was the sheep as dishonest profession. She plays today in European agriculture, a more subordinate role.

Other meanings

The special position of the shepherd profession has in Christian symbolism ( the good shepherd, the lost sheep ) and found in the pastoral poetry of precipitation.

Sheep farm buildings of 1744 from Hambühl in the Franconian Open Air Museum of Bad Windsheim

The shepherd pays attention to his flock ( 19th century painting )

Schaefer carts

Interior view of a shepherd Barrow

Training to Shepherd (1985 )

Schaefer Group of Joseph Baron in Munster ( Örtze)

Schaefer Group in Mettmann