Sea-faring sheepdog recruited to work with rare sheep
7 April 2021 |
Sweep will round flocks of rare sheep on a remote island off the Suffolk coast (Photo: National Trust)
A one-year-old border collie has been recruited by the National Trust to help look after some of the UK s rarest sheep on remote land off the Suffolk coast.
Sweep travelled to Orford Ness nature reserve by boat where he will round flocks of sheep under the watchful eye of shepherd Andrew Capell.
Breeds there include the Whitefaced Woodland, saved from extinction in the 1970s, the Manx Loaghtan which has fewer than 1,500 breeding females left and the Herdwick.
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