We could have sheep, just keep the in the bloody field and not on the sodding road. Christ, I cycled over enough bloody cattle grids - what's the point of them if they don't prevent sheep getting onto the road? How hard can it be?
Get the council to repair any gate/fence/hedge that sheep can get through, and then send the bill to the farmer, and don't transport them by them walking down the road, instead, use a lorry or trailer.
Load them in in one field, drive down the road, unload them in the other field. Or better still don't bother, just leave them in the first field and absconce the need to transfer them at all.
All animals, including horses, should be regarded as completely unpredictable and it should not be regarded as a surprise when they decide to run off or do their own thing.
We do need sheep, but not quite as many as we've got, because most farmers are actually living on EU subsidies and not actually producing anything at all due to food mountains that exist, therefore anything they do produce is pure surplus. Consequently all they do is bugger around all day and pretend to farm.
Bloody farmers, they're nothing but a chuffing *nuisance* !