A trio of rare-breed lambs have arrived at Dumfries House estate as birthday presents to HRH The Prince of Wales, who celebrated his 70th birthday last month.
Prince Charles was gifted three Boreray lambs from people at opposite ends of the country - a black lamb from Land’s End and two white lambs from Orkney.
The Boreray sheep, also known as the Boreray Blackface or Hebridean Blackface, is the smallest and rarest of all the UK’s native sheep breeds.
Though still the most endangered, since The Prince became patron of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in 1978, the Boreray has changed from being a category one critical breed to being a category three vulnerable breed.
Little lamb Bryher arrived from Cornwall from 15-year-old farmer Jowan Bobin and touched down in Ayrshire in early-November on the same day as woolly counterparts Ann and Martha arrived from Orkney.
