Beeherd

There is no sure way of securing swarms but by a constant watching of a beeherd, retained on purpose, from seven or eight in the morning until three or four in the afternoon, till all the prime swarms have issued.

The beeherds, swineherds and others enumerated in that document are apparently grouped together under the single heading of servi in Domesday Book.

The peasantry were oxherds, shepherds, swineherds, gooseherds, beeherds, thatchers, ploughmen and drivers of oxen, and there were among the craftsmen blacksmiths, wood and leather workers and weavers, and in some villages, slaves.

“With this I shall purchase a pig and become a swineherd, or bees and become a beeherd.”

The cowherd and beeherds did, certainly, but in Avalon there simply wasn't much reason to exert control over members of the animal kingdom.