New UK-Bred Sheep Looks Just Like a Badger

But why would you breed a sheep with the face of a badger?

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00:00These might look like ordinary sheep from behind, but from the front you might notice

00:07they have the same facial patterns as badgers, but that's no accident.

00:10These are what are known as badger face texels.

00:13They are the product of painstaking breeding, which animal experts at Lippiette Farm in

00:17the UK say they spent the better part of the last year turning their 3 badger face sheep

00:21into 10.

00:22But why?

00:23Sheep expert and farmer Sue Andrews says that more exotic sheep are becoming more popular,

00:27adding, at the moment though they are only being sold to pedigree breeders and passed

00:31to new farmers across the country, so the idea is that later on they will be a good new source

00:35for commercial breeders.

00:36To breed them they bought the female sheep from the Netherlands and mated them with a

00:39very popular Scottish ram, resulting in these distinctive badger looking creatures, with

00:44Andrew explaining, if you're going to keep something as a bit of a novelty, it's worth

00:47it having a purpose too, so they'll do well commercially, and commercially speaking, apparently

00:52they're delicious.

00:57them upors and they have three unique releases, they're glittering, so it's too

01:13easy.

01:14You don't want to предлаг market prices for a common fact after they have longitudinal

01:17themselves to a common expense.