Lamb has farm baa-ffled

SHEEP saga . . . Annette Hirst with the mystery lamb

This week-old lamb should be all white like her pedigree Dorset mother.

But she was born with distinctive brown patches, sparking the Albion Farm Shop Sheep Mystery.

Farm partner Annette Hirst has put a board in the Delph barn where the mystery lamb is being raised asking Saddleworth sleuths if they can help hunt down the father. Annette said: “We think we’ll keep her as a bit of a mascot.

“The pedigree Dorsets are all white and she was born with brown splodges, and is clearly sired by a Jacob’s ram, a brown and white breed.

“We don’t have one and we don’t know anyone who has, so it is a complete mystery.”

Visitors to the shop can see the mystery lamb in the adjacent barn.

There are 150 sheep in the farm’s Dorset flock, and Annette is keeping her fingers crossed that there are no more brown and white ones.