The smiths herd visit
The black smith sneered, giving the big herd sire backhand praise, of a sort. but quality geldings would fetch a good price, which would keep him wealthy and powerful, after all.
The Wish Chapter III
Maybe it seems odd, and maybe it is just the natural way of things; but ted and bob were accounted as herd sires. each is the prime sire of a herd totaling more than two hundred cows.