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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

11 April 2024 By Alice Cunningham, BBC News, Suffolk The odds of a sheep birthing five lambs is often referred to as a million to one in farming ...