11.   Last year, a fire destroyed the cow barn, killing the entire dairy herd.

12.   Not long ago, Puerto Rico and Mexico were tormented by the goatsucker, a creature capable of draining the blood of entire herds of farm animals.

13.   Now a dozen or so heir entire herd has to be destroyed.

14.   One goal is the creation of entire herds of drug-producing animals that would simplify and save costs over conventional production.

15.   The early Spanish, she explains, butchered prize alpacas for meat and rounded up entire herds to be sent to the silver mines as pack animals.

16.   The entire herd had to be shot by state officials, though only nine elk were then found to be infected.

17.   The European Union wants Britain to develop a plan for slaughtering entire herds in which large numbers of animals have contracted mad cow disease.

18.   The only apparent method of containing the disease is the drastic remedy of incinerating entire herds and restricting the movement of people and animals in the countryside.

19.   The study uses four collars, rotated among the cows so that the grazing choices of the entire herd are reflected in the data.

20.   They say European Union regulations, aimed at stamping out the disease, needlessly target entire herds and will ruin dairy farmers.