Gray has four Shetland sheep. Her mother Sarah Fouts of Gilmore has Tunis sheep, a breed intertwined with early American history.

While the breed began popping up in the 1700s, it wasn’t until 1909 that the England Kennel Club first recognized the Shetland Sheepdog as a breed in its own right.

There’s one breeder from Fife that has taken her fair share of the prizes over the years, and hasn’t missed a single show since the early 1980s. Rena Douglas runs the Drum flock of Shetland sheep on ...

Shetland sheep graze in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains at Sycamore Farms. These ewes and rams trace their ancestry back to Scotland, but their modern counterparts have made a permanent ...

Each sheep breed is unique, and all sheep are able to breed with each other without too much difficulty so there is no biological reason for the two new offspring to be of ill health. A Shetland ...

One sheep took Angelou’s words literally. An English farm announced the surprise birth of two small, fuzzy and rare lambs — a combination of sheep breeds the farm didn’t plan.