Official tries to pull wool over the eyes with sheep excuse

A SHEEP FARM that claimed to have tens of thousands of sheep has been found to have only several hundred. Tian Wentao, director of animal husbandry bureau of Jingbian county, Shaanxi province in Northwest China, said the wrong number had been given because it was difficult to count the sheep that kept moving around. The discrepancies should be cleared by investigation, Rednet.cn comments:

The official said in November 2015 that the county of Jingbian had one farm with about 10,000 sheep, 37 farms with 1,000 sheep each and 110 farms with 500 sheep each. But the largest farm had no more than 3,000 sheep, and many others only had around 100 each.

Questioned about the discrepancies between the numbers claimed and the real numbers, Tian said it was hard to accurately count the number of sheep because they kept moving around.