David Buckland says a lack of winter grazing in the islands is causing harm to the wild breeds.

Rare sheep with roots on a remote Scottish island are gaining a valuable foothold in Norfolk - helped by a family determined to save the breed from extinction. Suzannah Long and her mother Kerry Gibb ...

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An Orkney farmer is part-funding her own abattoir so her rare breed Boreray sheep no longer have to be taken on a seven-hour trip to the mainland for slaughter. The islands have been without a ...

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The Boreray sheep, also known as the Boreray Blackface or Hebridean Blackface, is the smallest and rarest of all the UK’s native sheep breeds. A trio of rare-breed lambs have arrived at Dumfries House ...

With their long, curling horns, stumpy little legs, distinctive characters, and a fleece that moults naturally to reveal a soft layer that could rival fine cashmere, Jane Cooper’s sheep are a living ...