[Well, hey, if the boy's willing to talk shop, Lyall will talk shop. He even looks a bit more animated as he does so.]

Procreative practices and gestational productivity, mostly. I've been working with a couple small herds for a few decades now, and have been attempting to work out increasing their yield. It's one of my more scientific pet projects. I've a couple papers on the subject.

[More than he has on most of his other pet projects, really. Maybe it's that the sheep breeding is approved of a bit more by the hungry werewolf pack.]