This report created alarm amongst those of us who love to see the hairy little critters dotting our landscape. It was no surprise that we are being out-shagged by the Italians.
April 12, 2006
Report: Hungarian Sheep Not Shagging Enough
By Pestiside Staff
Despite today's onslaught of potentially monumental political news, the English-language pages of state news wire MTI are currently pushing a rather curious story about the plight of Hungary's sheep-farming industry originally from daily broadsheet Népszava. The basic outlines of the piece - the lamb-breeders are baaaaaaing for state subsidies to counter facing painful competition in their traditional overseas markets, primarly Italy - are familiar enough.
Less clear is why one the biggest supposed challenges facing Magyar shepherds is the need to "increase reproduction rates" among their flocks, and why some believe this might be better achieved by increasing the size of local sheep farms and the subsidies they receive. Because if herding animals into bigger groups and giving them lots of subsidies was the key to increasing their reproduction rates, there wouldn't be fewer Hungarian today than there were in 1980.
Borrowed with gratitude from: http://www.pestiside.hu/archives/report_hungarian_sheep_not_shagging_enough002188.php
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