{"id":1760,"date":"2011-03-15T17:41:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2011-03-15T17:41:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:41:52","slug":"lamb-born-with-two-distinct-fleeces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/2011\/03\/lamb-born-with-two-distinct-fleeces\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamb born with two distinct fleeces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extremely rare and unique lamb with two distinct fleeces has been born in Cheshire.<\/p>\n<p>The two fleeces come from its grandmothers Swaledale heritage and its grandfathers, which is Bluefaced Leicester.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1761\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Rare-Lamb-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1761\" title=\"Lamb born with two distinct fleeces in Cheshire. Pic Reaseheath College\" src=\"http:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Rare-Lamb-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lamb born with two distinct fleeces in Cheshire. Pic Reaseheath College\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lamb born with two distinct fleeces in Cheshire. Pic Reaseheath College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matt Bagley, sheep flock manager\u00a0at <a title=\"Reaseheath College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reaseheath.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Reaseheath College<\/a>, said: &#8221;\u00a0The lamb is the first of its type I\u00a0have seen in my 25 years of working with sheep&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bagley added: \u201cNatures wonderful, you never know what you will be gifted with next. This one lamb illustrates to all visitors and students the workings of genetics and provides a fantastic opportunity for everyone to see how unique life can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flock at Reaseheath College is one of several commercial farming enterprises based on the college campus. It is used both to provide income and to give agricultural students hands-on experience of managing a top class and viable sheep unit.<\/p>\n<p>The College is set amongst 330\u00a0hectares of farms, parklands, lake, woodland and sports facilities, including a golf course.<\/p>\n<p>Six hectares of land are leased to Crewe Alexandra Football Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extremely rare and unique lamb with two distinct fleeces has been born in Cheshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2303],"tags":[3044,3048,3053,3041,3058,3040,3036,3054,3061,3047,3049,3050,881,3055,3059,543,3051,3057,3038,3037,3060,3046],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-mammals","category-news-in-brief","tag-agricultural-students","tag-bagley","tag-cheshire","tag-commercial-farming","tag-crewe-alexandra-football-club","tag-farming-enterprises","tag-fleeces","tag-genetics","tag-golf-course","tag-grandfathers","tag-grandmothers","tag-hands-on-experience","tag-hectares","tag-heritage","tag-lake-woodland","tag-lamb","tag-natures","tag-reaseheath-college","tag-sheep-flock","tag-sheep-unit","tag-sports-facilities","tag-students-hands","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}