how does sheep farming work in other countries? in Norway, we just let them walk around wherever. you see them along roads. in areas where sheep are farmed, people put up fences to keep them out instead of keeping them in. i suspect other countries have them graze on fenced pastures, which is what we do with cows.
in any case, this means that they’re vulnerable to predation and a number of them get killed by wolves, so in order to deal with this, the government issues hunting quotas on wolves for population control.
some people have argued that this wouldn’t be needed if we used shepherd dogs, but i’m unsure about that. are sheep frequently killed by wolves in other countries? maybe it’s not as common elsewhere because there’s hardly anywhere left for wolves to live, whereas Scandinavia has plenty of forests, mountains and other uncultivated land.
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@thor wolves are back in germany and many farmers are like "😱" because they from time to time kill some livestock. can't blame the wolves, it's like a all-you-can-eat buffet for them.
where the shepherd dogs are used, they seem to work pretty well. it's cheaper to shoot wolves though, so that's whats done :/
in northern germany sheep are usually used as lawn-mowers on dykes (usually with fences) and in some areas where they were traditionally held like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCneburg_Heath to preserve the landscape.
