On a sunny October day, a flock of sheep are grazing on the green grass before it freezes as the colors of fall marches towards the white of winter. And like many families, there is a ‘black sheep’ in the flock which sticks out among the rest of the group. Black sheep in the past were used as marker sheep, often one black per hundred head, to give the sheepherder a quick estimate count if all the sheep were present and not lost.
Black Sheep in the Flock
