00:03These might look like ordinary sheep from behind, but from the front you might notice they have the same facial
00:08patterns as badgers, but that's no accident.
00:10These are what are known as badger face texels. They're the product of painstaking breeding, which animal experts at Lippiette
00:17Farm in the UK say they spent the better part of the last year turning their three badger face sheep
00:21into ten.
00:22But why? Sheep expert and farmers who Andrew says that more exotic sheep are becoming more popular, adding, at the
00:28moment though they're only being sold to pedigree breeders and passed to new farmers across the country, so the idea
00:33is that later on they will be a good news source for commercial breeders.
00:36To breed them they bought the female sheep from the Netherlands and mated them with a very popular Scottish ram,
00:41resulting in these distinctive badger looking creatures, with Andrew explaining, if you're going to keep something as a bit of
00:46a novelty, it's worth it having a purpose too, so they'll do well commercially.
00:50And commercially speaking, apparently, they're delicious.
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