A rare breeds centre claimed to have cut mortality rates of orphaned new-born lambs. Church Farm Rare Breeds Centre, in Stow Bardolph, near Downham Market, in Norfolk, said over the past three years, ...
A flock of rare breed sheep has been brought in to help conservation efforts over the winter months at a park. The Dorset Down sheep have been introduced at High Woods Country Park in Colchester ...
the niche market for rare-breed wool is expanding, and old-fashioned types of hardy breeds are being used for upland conservation-grazing projects to restore wildlife habitat. Hebridean sheep have ...
A sheep that was shot last year while pregnant has successfully given birth. The shooting happened at Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm, near Ipswich, in September, but the offender has yet to be caught.
There’s no shortage of sheep to count, either: 33 million or so across Britain, which is a quarter of the EU flock and 3% globally. And those 33 million woolly blobs, scudding like four-legged clouds ...
The shooting happened at Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm, near Ipswich, in September, but the offender has yet to be caught. The sheep suffered injuries to her leg and farm manager Kate Ockelton ...
Church Farm Rare Breeds Centre says it has adopted stringent ... The farm said it planned its breeding season for sheep so that lambs were born from early February to the end of April, which ...