A sheep has defied the one in a million odds of giving birth to five lambs. Staff at Kentwell Hall near Long Melford, Suffolk, were shocked when the Norfolk horn ewe birthed the quintuplets on ...

A sheep has defied the one in a million odds of giving birth to five lambs. Staff at Kentwell Hall near Long Melford, Suffolk, were shocked when the Norfolk horn ewe birthed the quintuplets on ...

Two farmers have put countless hours into washing, shearing and preening sheep ready for a county show. Stephen Cobbald, 80, is in charge of a farm at Acton Hall near Sudbury, Suffolk, and gets ...

He keeps about 400 sheep - half of which are the Dorset Horn and half Poll Dorset - and has a contract with Waitrose. At peak around 1,000 sheep and lambs will be grazing on the farm in the ...

A Suffolk sheep farmer is counting the cost after losing sheep to a deadly Bluetongue outbreak in East Anglia - just as he begins his lambing season. On Saturday morning, four cases of the virus ...

In this study, the Suffolk and Texel sheep breeds were compared for microsatellite marker heterozygosity throughout seven chromosomal regions in the sheep genome. A total of 623 Texel animals and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered strangely deformed sheep skulls at an ancient Egyptian burial site, representing the oldest known example of humans modifying livestock horns. Researchers also found ...