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World's most expensive sheep smashes record as it sells for £368k at auction

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The Sun reports. Its price is more than the cost of many actual farmhouses in that area.Texel Sheep Society chief executive John Yates said: "This will, to many people, sound like an extraordinary price for a sheep."The Texel breed is the number one terminal sire breed in the UK, siring about 30% of all the lambs born in the UK every year."This ram lamb has the potential to sire many, many rams which will, in turn, go on to breed many thousands of lambs themselves."He went on: "This is the very top of the sheep breeding industry in the UK and as such the buyers are investing in the future of their businesses." Jeff Aiken, farm manager of the Procter's flock, and who was one of the buyers, told the BBC: "In the pedigree breed you start.

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