Definitions for herding
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1. Herding

   Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group (herd), maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those. Herding can refer either to the process of animals forming herds in the wild, or to human intervention forming herds for some purpose. While the layperson uses the term "herding" to describe this human intervention, most individuals involved in the process term it mustering, "working stock", or droving. Some animals instinctively gather together as a herd. A group of animals fleeing a predator will demonstrate herd behavior for protection; while some predators, such as wolves and dogs have instinctive herding abilities derived from primitive hunting instincts. Instincts in herding dogs and trainability can be measured at noncompetitive herding tests. Dogs exhibiting basic herding instincts can be trained to aid in herding and to compete in herding and stock dog trials. Sperm whales have also been observed teaming up to herd prey in a coordinated feeding behavior.Herding is used in agriculture to manage domesticated animals. Herding can be performed by people or trained animals such as herding dogs that control the movement of livestock under the direction of a person. The people whose occupation it is to herd or control animals often have herd added to the name of the animal they are herding to describe their occupation (shepherd, goatherd, cowherd). A competitive sport has developed in some countries where the combined skill of man and herding dog is tested and judged in a "trial", such as a sheepdog trial. Animals such as sheep, camel, yak, and goats are mostly reared. They provide milk, meat and other products to the herders and their families.

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1. Herding

   of Herd

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1. Herding

   Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group, maintaining the group and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those. While the layperson uses the term "herding", most individuals involved in the process term it mustering, "working stock" or droving. Some animals instinctively gather together as a herd. A group of animals fleeing a predator will demonstrate herd behavior for protection; while some predators, such as wolves and dogs have instinctive herding abilities derived from primitive hunting instincts. Instincts in herding dogs and trainability can be measured at noncompetitive herding tests. Dogs exhibiting basic herding instincts can be trained to compete in herding and stock dog trials. Sperm whales have also been observed teaming up to herd prey in a coordinated feeding behavior. Herding is used in agriculture to manage domesticated animals. Herding can be performed by people or trained animals such as herding dogs that control the movement of livestock under the direction of a person. The people whose occupation it is to herd or control animals often have herd added to the name of the animal they are herding to describe their occupation. These -herds may use herding dogs to assist them and a competitive sport has developed in some countries where the combined skill of man and dog is tested and judged in a Trial such as a Sheepdog trial. Animals such as sheep, camel, yak and goats are mostly reared. They provide milk, meat and other products to the herders and their families.

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1. HERDING

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Herding is ranked #160975 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Herding surname appeared 100 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Herding.
   
   98% or 98 total occurrences were White.

How to pronounce herding?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say herding in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of herding in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of herding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of herding in a Sentence

1. Andrew Brandt:

   Adam Silver had to gain consensus from a group of so many stakeholders — it must have been like herding cats.

2. Laurence Wormald:

   Crowding and herding is the big problem with smart-beta, the illusion of being able to permanently depress the risk on equities through smart-beta or minimum-variance strategies has been very, very appealing, and a lot of money has piled in, but that delusion cannot be kept up because it's based on a strategy that doesn't work when the crowd arrives.

3. Ezra Loomis Pound:

   Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

4. Hamid Sardar-Afkhami:

   They're the last of their kind, even if they survive, if they leave the reindeer herding culture that distinguishes them, their culture will die.

5. Gary Huxtable:

   The market at the moment is in classic herding behaviour, shifting the market from one extreme to the other, with central bank policies the main influencing factor.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herding
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/herding
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=herding
4. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html